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THE DUALITY OF TRUTH; 

OR 

The Occult Forces of Nature 
Reviewed From the Stand- 
point of Hermetic 
Philosophy. 



BY 



Henry Wagner, M. D. 



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PREFACE. 

The demand for the contents of this 
book is the reason for its appearance be- 
fore a reading public; therefore you are 
asked to read it from beginning to end 
before passing judgment. 

Remember the Author recognizes your 
right to differ from him on all he has 
written, as the title of this book is "The 
Duality of Truth." Your choice of either 
of the positive or negative sides, or both 
united as One Truth, dually expressed, 
will be equally satisfactory to the Author. 

No matter which view you hold, you 
will be partially right, or wholly so, pro- 
vided you recognize the Duality of Truth 



PREFACE. 

as One Word, One Truth, One Principle, 
One Law and One God, then my efforts 
to instruct will not have been in vain. 

With this consciousness I submit this 
book to a critical public with the hopes of 
realizing candor and truthfulness from its 
readers, who are inclined to criticise its 
contents. The Author. 



INTRODUCTION. 



In presenting this brief review of the 
Occult Forces of Nature a few words are 
thought necessary to make clear to the 
reader the idea of the writer for this state- 
ment of Hermetic Philosophy. The Kab- 
alist and the Astrologer, as well as the 
Alchemist, in writing upon Hermetic Phil- 
osophy, have veiled, rather than revealed, 
its true meaning under symbols and hiero- 
glyphics that make it almost impossible 
for the general reader to understand their 
writings. The reasons that compelled 
them to veil Truth having passed away, 
with the past Cycle, from which the Earth 
and its inhabitants of the Western Con- 



6 INTRODUCTION. 

tinent are now emerging out of the mental 
darkness that shrouded the past cycle of 
humanity in mental night. Therefore, I 
am persuaded the time has come to par- 
tially lift the veil and speak in plain and 
simple language that all may understand. 
Therefore, the reader will excuse repeti- 
tion of expression, as it was found neces- 
sary to make clear the ideas the Author 
wishes to express. 

Nature is forever one, as a whole, but 
infinite in expression; therefore I have 
only copied Nature in my attempt to 
make clear her operations as viewed from 
the standpoint of a student of Hermetic 
Philosophy. Hermetic means secret or 
sealed and, in opening the seal of One 
Law dually expressed, I have revealed 
Isis and Osiris as the Motherhood and 
Fatherhood of God; two expressions of 



INTRODUCTION. 7 

Force and Intelligence, emanating from 
one fountain of life as Positive and Nega- 
tive — Darkness and Light, Time and 
Eternity, Electricity and Magnetism, Mo- 
tion and Rest, Reason and Intuition, Mind 
and Spirit, Subjective and Objective, 
Duality and Unity, Physical and Meta- 
physical, Spirit and Matter, God and Na- 
ture, Ignorance and Wisdom, Ideal and 
Real, Human and Divine, God and Devil, 
Philosophy and Religion, Analysis and 
Synthesis, Involution and Evolution. Thus 
we see Life is dually expressed, ad in- 
finitum. 

The Kingdom of God can never come 
until "The two become as one." "Let 
him who can receive it, so receive it." 
This is the great mystery that has been 
hidden for ages and from generations. 
" He that hath an ear, let him hear." The 



8 INTRODUCTION. 

spiritual Christ comes to seek and to save 
that which is lost, it does not say man 
which is lost, but that which is lost, and to 
restore to man that Spiritual Intuition 
which he lost when his dual forces became 
sundered and he grew into the animal 
objective world of sense and selfishness. 
In the Books of Moses we read, "God, 
in the manifestation of two opposites in 
force, created the two heavens, i. e., the 
upper or light, and the lower or dark, 
signifying the equivalents of heat and 
cold, day and night, expansion and con- 
traction, summer and winter — in short, 
the all-embracing cosmic relations. In- 
volution and evolution of the two halves, 
or male and female principles within the 
man and woman, give them their new 
birth, the growth of which leads to spirit- 
ual life and wisdom, restored to their 



INTRODUCTION. 9 

former original oneness as a Deific Ego, 
expressing its dual nature outwardly in 
the forms of man and woman. 

This dual expression of the Father and 
Mother God in man and woman, is God 
manifested in his offspring. Therefore, 
we are Godlings in embryo in the womb 
of Nature called Isis, the mother of all, 
and when developed into our fullness of 
growth we become the perfect Man — God 
or Christ. This knowledge is God's 
eternal truth to his children of Earth and 
will redeem them unto Himself as they 
accept it and make it their own, each one 
for himself or herself. There is no Vicar- 
ious Atonement. The Christ within must 
redeem from ignorance, which is sin 
against the Father and Mother of our 
being. Therefore, to remain in sin or 
ignorance, or mental darkness of who 



IO INTRODUCTION. 

God is and who we are, and our relation 
to Him, is to grieve the Holy Spirit as 
He would that all should know Him from 
the least unto the greatest. If this volume 
aids to this end its aim and object will 
have been accomplished. Therefore, no 
more need be said to introduce this book 
to mv readers. The Author. 



THE DUALITY OF TRUTH. 



CHAPTER I. 

THE LAW OF PROGRESS. 

Death, so called, will separate the liv- 
ing from the dead, "the wheat from the 
chaff, the goats from the sheep." In short, 
all must be in harmony with the new in- 
coming forces and those who cannot 
adjust themselves to the requirements 
of the new Cycle will be compelled to 
change their polarity of vibration which 
will necessitate death of their physical 
organisms, precisely as the leaves drop 
from the trees in the fall, because of the 
life forces which animated them having 
changed their polarity and caused the 



12 The Duality of Truth. 

opposite appearance of life outwardly to 
manifest that which is called death. This 
change takes place mentally, on the plane 
of mind in exact correspondence to that 
on the plane of matter, the only difference 
being in the periods, or cycles of its man- 
ifestation — those of matter, once every 
year; while those of mind are governed 
by the cycles of seven, nine, twenty-one, 
twenty-seven respectively, owing to the 
Sun's vibrations in fire, water, air or earth. 
The airy sign, Aquarius, symbol of the 
astrological man, is in operation at the 
present time. Therefore nine is the 
number ruling the present cycle. Nine is 
also the number governing mind in rela- 
tion to Deity, repeated four times — once 
in each triplicity, of earth, air, fire and 
water — which proves Plato's statement to 
be true, "that God geomatrizes." 



The Law of Progress. 13 

God is actively at work in all parts of 
his vast being. Wars, Pestilence, Famine 
and Devastation of every kind can readily 
be explained by the law of Polar Motion, 
which regulates the mental fruitage of 
each cycle of the mind's manifestations. 
The wise man, as Prophet and Seer, 
knowing this law of periodicity, can, in a 
general way predict coming events and 
give history of the past to verify his pre- 
dictions, as Nature only repeats herself 
on the planes of matter, mind and spirit; 
he, being versed in her past history, can, 
with certainty, know she will not vary 
her operations except in degree as she 
changes her pole of vibration from that 
of solids to liquids, from liquids to ethers 
and from airy to fiery expressions of her 
spiral motions. This, in brief, is the Sil- 
ver Key by which the Golden Lock is 



14 Ihe Duality of Truth. 

opened and the seeker of truth is ad- 
mitted within the Sacred Sanctuary — The 
Holy of Holies. Only the Initiate of 
Nature's mysteries can understand the 
detail operations of her inner, higher and 
spiritual laws. Therefore, we will not 
attempt to explain them for the general 
reader, as he would not be able to com- 
prehend and realize their portents until 
he has purified his soul in harmony with 
their vibrative operations or manifesta- 
tions. He can rest assured, however, 
that God is present in all that he witnesses 
on Earth and console himself that all is 
well, no matter what appearances may say 
to the contrary. 

Change, eternal change, is the law of 
progress, or shall I say that of Involution 
and Evolution, or generation and mani- 
festation, or that of sex — all meaning pre 



The Law of Progress. 15 

cisely the same thing, differently ex- 
pressed. 

The present Cycle is one of great 
moment to the children of Earth, espe- 
cially so to those living on the Western 
Hemisphere. We are entering upon the 
most wonderful period of our Earth's life. 
It has just passed its majority and maybe 
said to be of age. Its acts and doings in 
youth have been far from wise or good. 
History tells us of the bloodshed, the wars 
that have devastated the races of the past 
in its march of growth up to its present 
development. It is still fighting, but in a 
more scientific way than in past rounds of 
its history as it grows to maturity, and in 
old age it will be less war-like and more 
wise in council. Arbitration will succeed 
its arms and great guns of destruction, so 
necessary to its present development. 



1 6 The Duality of Truth. 

Death is only a change of the Ego's pole 
Life manifests its vibrations on the men- 
tal plane and those that are cut off in 
battle, disease or famine are made to real- 
ize the law of universal justice or equal 
rights to all of God's children. As He is 
our Father and Mother, and no respecter 
of persons, we must see and realize the 
Hand that guides us is divine. Man is 
but an atom in Deity and the race is but 
the aggregation of atoms comprising the 
whole — all governed by the One Law, 
One Truth, One Principle and One God. 
The innocent suffer with the guilty. True, 
but do we not know that innocence and 
ignorance equally require to be unfolded; 
therefore, justice is meted out to all. It 
matters not to us as rays of light and love, 
so long as justice is accomplished and the 
will 01 God is fulfilled, the parts owe this 



The Law of Progress, 1 7 

obedience to the whole in order that they 
may have their consciousness of being in 
God. Disobedience, or ignorance, of this 
relation to God is followed by death or 
polarization of the Ego in mortality, 
which means unconsciousness. The cycle 
of unconsciousness in darkness is neces- 
sary to a higher and better or wiser ex- 
pression of life on the next cycle of evo- 
lution which follows in its turn as the dial 
of Deity indexes his dual manifestations 
in new forms of life. Higher and more 
perfect growth is thus attained until per- 
fection at last culminates in the union of 
the two opposite forces into one. They 
have learned their lessons of love to all 
and obeyed the law of justice or wisdom 
by doing to others as they would that 
others should do to them. Their cycle of 
necessity is ended, so far as Earth is con- 



1 8 The Duality of Truth. 

cerned, and as a new-born creation they 
enter upon higher cycles of Deific life, 
known as the Angelic. Man and woman 
reunited or restored to their former one- 
ness of being, with wisdom added to love, 
which qualifies them to co-operate with 
Deity intelligently. Henceforth they know 
themselves to be rays of life, light and love 
— emanations from the Spiritual Sun, the 
fountain of life, light and love. 

God, Om, Brahm are only different 
names given to this Sun of all life, and, 
like a rose, it is just the same by any 
other name ; therefore, it is not wise to 
spend time and energy in disputes as to 
which is the true name of all the many 
thousands that have been given to the 
Spiritual Sun by His different children or 
offspring. The main thing for us is to 
realize our oneness with It, in origin and 



The Law of Progress. 19 

destiny and do all we can to harmoniously 
co-operate with It in all its ways. Our 
happiness and usefulness depend entirely 
upon our recognition and obedience to 
this law of our being; failure to recognize 
this law leads to its opposite expression 
as all laws operate dually, or positively 
and negatively — the one leads us to con- 
scious immortal life; the other, uncon- 
scious mortal life. Choose you, this day, 
which you prefer and you will surely re- 
ceive that which you choose; justice will 
be meted out to all; they will reap what- 
soever they sow; none can sow for an- 
other; therefore, my reader, there is no 
Vicarious Atonement. This you must 
work out for yourself in harmony with 
your other self, before redemption can be 
accomplished. In doing this you become 
the perfect Man-woman, two in one, and 



20 The Duality of Truth. 

are forever thereafter at one with God. 
You have become your own redeemer and 
saviour, and only so far as your example 
and advice can help others can you be of 
aid to their souls' salvation. This is 
God's law and there is no escape or appeal 
from it, no other way to be saved from 
death or mortality. The Christ is born 
from this union and the Kingdom of 
Heaven is within the At-one-ment. It can 
not be found without the human soul. All 
must realize this for themselves, which 
they will do in God's own good time; 
therefore, my brother and sister, take new 
hope and courage, for there is no eternal 
death for any of God's children. He de- 
sires all to live and enjoy Him forever. 
He knows all; therefore, we can trust 
Him and feel happy that we have our 
being in Him either in full recognition of 



The Law of Progress, 21 

the fact, or otherwise, if so it be. Uncon- 
sciousness only means darkness or failure 
to see the light. But rest easy for dark- 
ness is only negation, the opposite mani- 
festation of light; therefore, when you 
desire the light it will surely come to you 
simply for the asking. Desiring, longing 
and praying for it will bring a response 
from your higher self, which is also a God 
in embryo, awaiting the development of 
its latent attributes and potentialities. 
This knowledge of who you are will, when 
recognized, and used wisely make you a 
king instead of a serf, a man instead of a 
youth. You will no longer obey that 
lower self, your animal soul, which we all 
have in common with the beasts, but your 
higher self. The God within you will 
awaken to a full realization of his God- 
nature. Then you will act God like and 



22 The Duality of Truth. 

redeem yourself from ignorance and its 
inherited thraldom from the dark ages of 
past cycles. You will work out your own 
redemption and rejoice in your ability to 
do so, much more so than if you had in- 
herited your At-one-ment as a free gift. 
We all enjoy that which we earn by our 
own efforts, much more than that which 
is given to us. It is more manly and God- 
like to earn a fortune than to have it 
given to us. Those who depend upon 
others for their support and development 
of soul, are generally weakened thereby, 
beside they lose that dignity of character 
and individuality so necessary to a healthy 
growth of the soul's senses. 

To punish the fnnocent for the guilty 
is a monstrous doctrine and had its birth 
among the savage races of past cycles to 
appease the wrath of their imaginary 



The Law of Progress. 23 

Gods. To accept Vicarious Atonement 
we put a premium upon crime, as can be 
verified by the history of the past two 
thousand years. We witness the effect of 
this false doctrine as taught to-day in the 
strife and bloody wars that are devasta- 
ting the races that inhabit this globe. To 
believe a falsehood is to cheat ourselves. 
God is not mocked. We can not afford, 
therefore, to remain blind any longer, my 
brother and sister. Nature requires jus- 
tice to be meted out to all. We can only 
redeem ourselves by knowledge and wis- 
dom, of our relations to God and our one- 
ness with Him, in spirit, motive and pur- 
pose to obey the higher self in co-operation 
with Him. We are largely the arbiter of 
our own destiny but, without knowledge, 
salvation cannot be attained. 

Those who say our Western civiliza- 



24 The Duality of Truth. 

tion of to-day is due to Christianity know 
nothing of occult laws or they would not 
make such a claim. Look at Christianity 
in its birth-place and see the degraded 
state into which its followers have fallen. 
They had Christianity before we of the 
West and should be our superiors, men- 
tally and spiritually, but are they? They 
are sinking into mental night and mani- 
fest our antipodal relation to them men- 
tally, while we of the West are rising into 
the glorious day of the Sun-God's efful- 
gence. It is this law of God's Cyclic 
manifestation that gave us our civilization 
and mental growth in spite of Christianity. 
The new day for our Western race has 
just begun and, during the present sub- 
cycle of the Sun's march through Aquarius, 
we will witness the death of Christianity 
as now taught. Out of its death shall 



The Law of Progress. 25 

arise a new religion, namely, the Wisdom 
Religion, not of Egypt nor the Orient, 
but of the Occident. It will embrace and 
embody all that is good and true of all 
past ages and, in addition, all that modern 
science can add to complete the dual ex- 
pressions of the One Law, One Truth, 
One Principle and One God in whom we 
live, move and have our being. It will 
not be a house divided against itself, em- 
bodying false doctrines, false creeds and 
false isms, but two poles of One Truth, as 
negative and positive, male and female, 
man and woman, the full embodiment of 
the God-head, which embraces the broth- 
erhood and sisterhood of man and the 
Motherhood and the Fatherhood of God. 
There will be no necessity of one saying 
to another, " Know ye the Lord?" for all 
shall know Him, from the least to the 



26 The Duality of Truth. 

greatest. Knowledge and goodness will 
fill the Earth, the millennial day will 
dawn for the Western races of this West- 
ern Continent. Prince Anael the Angel 
of Love and Ruler of the Astral Light 
must precede the next sub-cycle of the 
Sun, which gives birth to Raphael, the 
swift messenger of the Gods, which will 
illuminate the minds of the Western races 
to their full capacity, intellectually and 
spiritually. During his reign, intellectual 
greatness will remove most of our present 
obstacles in political, social and religious 
life. Inventions of scientific usefulness 
will place all in the enjoyment of health, 
happiness and heaven upon Earth, pro- 
vided the truths herein taught are ac- 
cepted and taught by the people of our 
Western Continent. If they do not accept 
it I will not hold myself responsible for 



The Law of Progress, 27 

these predictions. There is no law of 
compulsion — but one of persuasion. We 
only appeal to your intellect and intui- 
tions; therefore, the results are left with 
the race. God will be glorified by His chil- 
dren, and they sanctified by reason of their 
oneness in origin and destiny with Him. 
Immortality will be a realized fact in con- 
sciousness, and death will be swallowed up 
in victory, for all shall ultimately be saved 
for ever more, world without end. 



CHAPTER II. 

THE DOOR TO THE DUALITY OF TRUTH. 

We have asked, sought and knocked 
upon the door to the Temple of Truth 
and found it dually hinged, swinging in- 
wardly and outwardly, esoterically and 
exoterically. We are no longer barred 
from Urania's grandeurs, the door of the 
Sanctuary opens at our bidding, we are 
welcomed by thousands upon thousands 
that have preceded us. We hear our new 
name and receive the white stone, Truth, 
that the builders rejected. Without the 
Silver Key to the door of the Temple, the 
Sanctuary remains locked and can not be 
opened. Love is the Silver Key which 
unlocks the magic door to the Temple of 



The Door to the Duality of Truth. 29 

Truth, on every plane of life — -physical, 
mental and spiritual. Man, the Micro- 
cosm, is himself the Sanctuary wherein 
God loves to dwell. He is the Temple of 
the Sun-God Michael, built without ham- 
mer or saw. Sol-o-mon is another name 
for the Sun-God Michael. Truth, Knowl- 
edge and Wisdom are his children — born 
of love. 

Harmony is his message to our planet 
Earth. We welcome thee, Eros, thou 
child of God's eternal love, vouchsafed to 
the children of men. Speed on in thy 
orbit. Draw near to Earth. Vibrate thy 
love-messages free from lust or discord. 
Let not love's opposite manifest out- 
wardly upon Earth to the children of 
men. Awaken, Universal Love, that God 
may manifest divinity in humanity. Let 
this be thy glorious mission upon Earth, 



30 The Duality of Truth. 

that the Spiritual Sun — from whom and 
to whom we owe all may be glorified and 
his children sanctified. He is God of 
Gods, and Lord of all. Blest be his name 
forevermore. 

Immortality is born — a new Cycle en- 
tered upon — a new day dawns for man- 
kind. Man realizes his relation to God as 
His child — inheritor of Wisdom, Knowl- 
edge and Truth — and, understanding him- 
self, knowing himself with that conscious- 
ness born from intellect ripened into intu- 
ition which enables him to worship God 
in spirit and in truth. No longer bound 
by limitation he is free. His spirit can 
not be chained or imprisoned forever. 
Change, eternal change, brings light, love 
and life out of darkness, death and decay. 
Harmony out of discord. 'Eros out of 
chaos, two in one, God manifested in 



The Door to the Duality of Truth. 31 

forms, male and female — positive and 
negative. 

Involution and Evolution are the dual 
action of the One Law — One Life. Cycle 
after cycle completes its orbit or spiral, 
small or great. Globules or globes ap- 
pear from this action and inter-action. 
This is the circulation of God's nervous 
fluid— the " Elixir of Life " -the " Philoso- 
pher's Stone" — the " Deific Blood" or 
" Astral Light" — which transmutes the 
solids, liquids, gases and ethers from one 
form or substance into another. Fire 
into air, air into water, water into earth, 
the matrix, or womb of Mother Isis in 
which creation or manifestation takes 
place. Cycles of time differ in each ele- 
ment according to its nature. The fiery 
cycles are rapid in their action. Vibra- 
tion is quick as lightning on this plane. 



32 The Duality of Truth. 

Those of the air, next in rapidity. Next, 
those of the water, and lastly, those of the 
earth, corresponding to the colors of vio- 
let, indigo, yellow, orange, red, blue, green 
— which paint Earth's forms in variegated 
hues or colors. All due to the circulation 
of the " Elixir of Life," vibrating with 
different degrees of intensity throughout 
all kingdoms of spirit and matter. Invo- 
lution, from fire to earth. Evolution is 
the return manifestation or expression, in 
exact correspondence of these involved 
ideas, from earth to water, water to air, 
air to fire — making the cycle of necessity 
complete. 

This circulation of the universal life- 
fluid manifests first light, then love. 
Knowledge and Wisdom, the offspring 
thereof, when the cycles of Involution and 
Evolution are completed. The conscious- 



The Door to the Duality of Truth. 33 

ness of Light, gives joy, bliss and happi- 
ness. This garden of innocence, called 
Eden, is the Soul's first awakening from 
darkness. Love is born, through Light, 
from Life. The cycle of necessity, or 
three in one, three times manifested on 
the planes of spirit, mind and matter, 
evolves Light, Life and Love, or God in 
action — motion or vibration — manifesting 
his potentialities or latent attributes, cycle 
after cycle from the infinitely large to 
infinitely small, throughout the four ele- 
ments — fire, air, water and earth. Oxy- 
gen, Nitrogen, Hydrogen and Carbon, 
Salamanders, Sylphs, Undines and 
Gnomes. Each Kingdom correspond- 
ing in its life's forms to the elements 
expressing them. All related to each 
other as bone to flesh, blood to brain, 
from which thought emanates in con- 



34 The Duality of Truth, 

sciousness, as light and love — knowledge 
and wisdom. The full realization of the 
above awakens the Egd into his conscious 
immortal relation to Deity. He knows 
himself henceforth as one ray of Light vi- 
brating, circulating and pulsating through 
the four elements of earth — air, fire and 
water ; deathless as Deity, immortal as 
the whole, circulating throughout Him in 
correspondence with the great Macro- 
cosm — his Father - Mother God, from 
whom he has his being. He recognizes 
himself as part of Deity — an epitome of 
the Whole. In this sense is man created 
in the image of his God. Time is swal- 
lowed up in eternity, space annihilated, 
my Father and I are One. 

Intellect and Intuition, united as the 
two halves of the Divine Ego, positive 
and negative, co-operating throughout 



The Door to the Duality of Truth. 35 

the infinite ramifications of the One Life 
or Deity. Man originally was like his 
God — two in one. During his involution 
into matter out of spirit, separation took 
place in Libra, the bi-sexual sign — the 
scales of justice. The Ego, no longer 
had control of its dual nature; therefore, 
separation gave rise to discord, disease, 
suffering and death, to its manifested 
forms, causing it to create a new expres- 
sion of its latent potentialities, until re- 
stored to its original self. This cycle of 
necessity involved and evolved the at- 
tributes of both halves of the Divine Ego, 
giving it knowledge of the Tree of Life — 
of good and evil, harmony and discord, 
hell and heaven, love and wisdom. In 
short, a knowledge of Self. This knowl- 
edge is the first requisite. Man must know 
himself as man and woman united into 



36 The Duality of Truth. 

one being. This marriage produces 
heaven and makes him — the Microcosm 
— the exact counterpart of Deity — the 
Macrocosm. He must realize his divine 
origin as a child of God. Any protest 
against this knowledge shuts him out from 
his birthright. He is legal heir to God's 
boundless creations and can, if he knows 
himself, mount the Throne, as King, over 
all the lower kingdoms of life. This 
knowledge makes man a little lower than 
the Angels. It deifies him in conscious- 
ness as an immortal part of the immortal 
whole. Death no longer has control over 
him. He realizes his creative powers and 
co-operates with God in all His works, as 
a son of the Spiritual Sun. 

The Bible informs us that Sol-o-mon, 
the Spiritual Son, or wisest man that ever 
lived, had seven hundred wives and three 



The Door to the Duality of Truth, 37 

hundred concubines. The meaning of 
this statement is, he had gained wisdom 
by experience in the ten kingdoms of uni- 
versal life, which embrace all experiences 
in matter and spirit. The septenary laws 
are the completion of all forms in matter 
which embrace mineral, vegetable, animal 
and human life. Man being the septen- 
ary expression of life, Solomon's relation 
to his God in this department of his uni- 
versal circulation, is symbolized by his 
seven hundred wives, or legal relations to 
the four kingdoms of earth, air, fire and 
water. The three hundred concubines, 
refer to his experiences in the triune 
spiritual relations above matter. These 
three realms are in constant action and 
re-action, promiscuously, as the word con- 
cubine would imply. Every Ego is re- 
quired to experience all that is implied in 



$S The Duality of Truth. 

Sol-o-mon's seven hundred wives and 
three hundred concubines, in the cycle of 
necessity, which relates his soul to the ten 
kingdoms of universal life. Ten is the 
symbol of the formless One, or Deity un- 
manifest — the all in all of universal life. 
Solomon, having gained all knowledge 
and wisdom, his Cycle of Necessity was 
complete, and the divine circulation of 
Deity known by actual experience in its 
infinite ramifications, made him the wisest 
man that ever lived. This astrological 
language has concealed this mystery from 
all but the Initiates into the Duality of 
Truth. Each Ego is destined to experi- 
ence all that is expressed and implied by 
Solomon's relation to the universal Sun — ■ 
the Spiritual Sun of all life. The Sun 
being the source of all Life, Light and 
Love, the Ego has gained knowledge and 



The Door to the Duality of Truth. 39 

wisdom — the results of its personal ex- 
perience in its circulation throughout the 
ten kingdoms of matter and spirit. It has 
become wise. It is also a King of its own 
dominions, capable of ruling wisely and 
justly. It knows itself. It is perfect, as 
the Sun is perfect — its divine parents — 
from whom it emanated, and to whom it 
must return. It started in innocence, and 
returns with knowledge and wisdom. It 
has become its own creator and redeemer, 
by reason of its differentiation from 
the divine — One Life — and its complete 
knowledge of itself in relation to the 
whole — the Spiritual Sun. 

This truth will make you free and the 
results will be health, happiness and 
heaven. The twelve manners of fruit will 
be gathered from the twelve signs of the 
Zodiac, which symbolize all the functions 



40 The Duality of Truth. 

in every department of the Deific Life. 
Every perfected Deific Ego is an epitome 
of the Spiritual Sun, hence is a Sun, or 
miniature universe. Self-illuminated it 
expresses itself as Light, Lifeand Love, or 
Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding. 
The two — intellect and intuition — com- 
bined, comprehend all — as understand- 
ing — the foundation-stone upon which 
Solomon built his glorious temple, without 
the sound of hammer or saw. No sound is 
heard, silently and noiselessly the temple 
is reared in solemn grandeur with per- 
fection in all its parts. O, what a deific 
radiance hath Wisdom, when Love re- 
sponds in anthems of creative praise — We 
praise Thee, O God. This illumination 
of grandeur unspeakable commands the 
Ego's potentialities in praise and adora- 
tion of Its divine nature. 



The Door to the Duality of Truth. 41 

Sol, Om, On — the three names of the 
glorious Spiritual Sun, from which have 
come all Life, Light and Love. Sol, the 
Egyptian Father; Om, the Indian Mother, 
and On, the Persian child. Sol, the 
Father of the Egyptian Science; Om, the 
Mother of Indian Philosophy, and On, the 
child of the two in union — the religion of 
the Soul and the Stars, or Wisdom Re- 
ligion, symbolized by the sciences of As- 
tronomy and Astrology — Alchemy and 
Chemistry — the tw T in sciences of universal 
life. Man doth not live by bread alone, 
but, by every word that proceedeth out of 
the mouth of Deity. The twelve signs of 
the Zodiac symbolize the bread of life, 
that is for the healing of the nations of 
the Earth. By eating and assimilating 
this esoteric food they will be speedily 
restored to spiritual, mental and physical 



42 The Duality of Truth. 

health. The twelve manners of fruit are 
gathered each year as the Sun, Moon and 
planets vibrate their electric and magnetic 
influences throughout the twelve houses 
or signs of the Zodiac. All expressions 
of vegetables, fruits and animal life are 
polarized into forms of an infinite variety 
of foods for the physical sustenance of 
God's masterpiece — man. 

God hath made from one blood all 
nations of men to dwell on all the face of 
the Earth. It is this that makes the 
Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood 
of man. From this deific blood all man- 
kind are born, nourished and fed, in every 
department of their duplex organism, 
from the granite rock to the Microcosmic 
Deity — from mineral to man. Hence we 
do eat of His flesh and drink of His blood 
with every breath we breathe and with 



The Door to the Duality of Truth. 43 

every mouthful we eat or drink, as well 
as by every thought we think or give ex- 
pression to in form. Thoughts are sym- 
bolic ideas and take forms according to 
the use or function they subserve in Deity. 
There being nothing but Deity, He nec- 
essarily requires all that we witness in 
nature to express his attributes or poten- 
tialities. 

Biogenesis, or life from life, is God's 
mode of manifestation. Spirit, mind and 
matter, the trinity of life-forces, as Life, 
Light and Love, are forever interchang- 
able, like solids passing into gases, gases 
into ethers, to produce nature's tragedies, 
comedies and operas. Each divine Ego 
must, in making the Cycle of Necessity, 
vibrate through all phases and expres- 
sions of manifested and unmanifested life 
forms; therefore, all are necessary, all are 



44 The Duality of Truth. 

natural to the One Life, or the Divine 
Whole. Viewed in this light justice is 
meted out to all of God's children as they 
pass through the circulation of the Zodiac 
— the Cycle of Necessity, which rounds 
out and develops the two halves of every 
divine Ego into the At-one-ment with 
Deity Himself. Each separate Ego can 
and does co-operate with Deity to the end 
of carrying out His will in the expressions 
of His divine attributes or functions. "All 
are but parts of one stupendous whole, 
whose body nature is and God the soul, 
all nature is but art unknown to Thee; All 
chance, direction, which thou can'st not 
see; All discord, harmony not under- 
stood; All partial evil universal good." 
This universal life-expression creates the 
music of the Spheres. Each separate 
Ego performs its vibrations, in unison 



The Door to the Duality of Truth. 45 

with the Whole, in solos of octaves, re- 
peated in infinite variety of form and 
function, tones and colors, which give rise 
to every feeling and emotion that can or 
will be experienced by the Ego in its de- 
scent and ascent through its Cycle of 
Necessity. No two Egos have the same 
exact functions to perform. Diversity of 
form and function, infinitely expressed, is 
that which gives rise to all color and 
sound in all their possible expressions. 
The law of vibration, in wisdom and love, 
as the two halves of each separate Divine 
Ego manifest the visible and invisible at- 
tributes of their united co-operation in 
creating or manifesting their ideals into 
forms and functions. Increase, multiply 
and replenish the Earth was, and is, the 
Deific fiat to each separate Ego. To obey 
this fiat, the two halves of each Ego must 



46 The Duality of Tmth. 

unite themselves, in love and wisdom, to 
create their ideal children, or mental 
progeny. Mind is spiritual vibration of 
mental imagery — dynamic ideals ex- 
pressed in form and function. There- 
fore, each Ego is a separate creator of 
life-forms, expressing its attributes of po- 
tentiality, ceaseless in its efforts to imitate 
its divine parents, on the three planes of 
its expression, viz.: Spirit, Mind and Mat- 
ter. On the plane of matter we witness 
disease, discord and death, the result of 
ignorance and limitation in knowledge 
and understanding. Did the separate 
Egos possess perfect knowledge, they 
could produce perfection in their separate 
departments of creative life-forms, but 
perfection is wisdom and understanding, 
which can only come from experience by 
the Egos circulating throughout the Cycle 



The Door to the Duality of Trttth. 47 

of Necessity, the Zodiac of Deific life. 
Life and death succeed each other until 
immortality is born of Love and Wisdom 
to the Man- Woman or perfect At-one- 
ment. 

Through the Intellect and Intuition 
each Ego experiences for itself the laws 
of its being. This experience is necessary 
to make it wise — knowing itself to be the 
tree of life, of good and evil, capable of 
producing either. Deity as spirit — mind 
and matter — expresses a triune, or three 
in one, as father, mother and child. This 
law of His being is absolute and never 
fails in its action to bring forth its kind. 
On the spiritual plane, spirits are born 
from spirits. On the mental plane, mind 
from mind; and, on the material plane, 
matter from matter. They are inter- 
changeable in their Cycle of Involution 



48 The Duality of Truth. 

and Evolution, by reason of their changed 
polarity in making the Cycle of Necessity. 
Each plane can give expression to its own 
latent attributes or potentialities; hence 
we witness three triunes, three times ex- 
pressed in the deific manifestation of 
Himself, which make nine — the number 
of Deity — in operation. Nine is the high- 
est digit we possess and includes within 
itself all the potentialities and attributes 
of Deity, hence nine is a sacred number 
—the golden key that unlocks his creative 
or manifested expressions of life. His 
divine nature, unmanifested, is symbolized 
by ten — the one and the cipher — the all in 
all, or Deity as one — One Law, One 
Truth, One Principle, One Life, One 
Light, or One Word — which embraces all 
expressions of Himself in the Fatherhood 
and Motherhood of God and the Brother- 



The Door to the Duality of Truth. 49 

hood and Sisterhood of man, in so far as 
His outward manifestations are concerned. 
His Angelic, Celestial Hierarchies are 
manifest on the interior planes of life. 
Man being an epitome of Deity is the 
Deity's highest ideal perfection of Him- 
self in form and function — in matter. In 
order for Deity to manifest himself in 
form and function, it is necessary for him 
to think; which is to will into motion, or 
vibration, the triune laws of his nature, 
on whatever plane He desires to manifest. 
Thinking is active or positive will in 
vibration, which results in impregnating 
the negative or feminine nature with the 
Ego's dual attributes — love and wisdom, 
or male and female. If this dual nature 
did not exist in Deity He would be unable 
to externalize His potentialities, or latent 
attributes, in the duality of sex. We 



50 The Duality of Truth. 

know the tree by its fruits. Likewise, we 
know Deity by His manifestations or crea- 
tions; hence, knowledge of Deity, as ex- 
pressed by the laws of His creation, are 
all we can know of ourselves. This knowl- 
edge of self, as an epitome of Deity, 
makes man a God with divine possibili- 
ties — ever evolving higher and higher as 
he develops the inherent potentialities 
of his deific nature. Man is a God. 
There is no other solution to man. The 
wise men, of all ages, have come to this 
conclusion, in their serious study of man 
and his destiny. 

He is destined by Deity for perfec- 
tion, even as Deity is perfect. Be ye 
perfect, even as I am perfect, is the fiat 
sent forth by Deity Himself. There is 
not and can not be failure in the Divine 
economy of the Infinite One. Blot the 



The Door to the Duality of Truth. 51 

word failure from your dictionaries. All 
seeming failure is but undeveloped or 
immature expressions of life, and in God's 
own time He will accomplish His will, and 
what to us seems a failure will become 
perfect, even as God is perfect. Perfection 
is the result of experience gained by the 
knowledge of the laws of Deity in every 
department of His being. These laws 
can only be known to the Ego by its cir- 
culating throughout the whole — One Life. 
Wisdom can not be expressed through 
an imperfect organism; neither can music 
be vibrated from a broken instrument or 
one imperfectly constructed. The Earth 
and our Solar system are in the process 
of being perfected and, until that day 
manifest itself, we must not expect per- 
fect men and women as the fruitage of 
Mother Isis and Father Osiris. The 



52 The Duality of Truth. 

planetary laws enter into man's physical, 
mental and spiritual organism; there- 
fore, he can not step forth in perfection 
until the period of planetary vibration is 
such as to express perfection outwardly 
upon Earth. Ripe juice cannot be ex- 
tracted from green and immature fruit; 
neither can wisdom emanate from the 
undeveloped brains of men and women. 
Men and women are deific fruit, born 
from the tree of knowledge of good and 
evil. They must know both. They must 
know both to become wise and perfect. 
Hell, or discord, is only one side: while 
Heaven comprises the knowledge of both 
in their action and interaction, as positive 
and negative expressions of One Law — 
One Truth, One Life, One Principle, One 
Deity, each deific Ego — has latent within 
it all the qualities of the Whole, and will 



The Door to the Duality of Truth. 53 

ultimately externalize them. Perfection 
will then be attained, and the millennial 
day, so much talked of, will become a re- 
ality upon Earth. Michael, Anael and 
Raphael will each have performed their 
function as vice-gerents of the Most 
High; and the children of man will stand 
forth as the embodiment of God's will to 
man, manifested in creative expressions of 
usefulness in scientific inventions of all 
conceivable kinds. The Air-ship will be- 
come a reality, and transportation by this 
means will be delightful, pleasurable and 
enjoyable, as we glide with swift and 
rapid motion through the air from one 
portion of the Earth to another, and 
from one continent to another, circum- 
navigating the globe. All this by reason 
of the vibrations set in motion by the 
Sun's vibrations through the man — sign — 



54 The Duality of Truth. 

Aquarius. This could not have external- 
ized through Pisces — the fisherman's sign 
— which symbolizes the past sub-cycle of 
the Sun in the watery forces. During 
that cycle we perfected our huge ocean 
steamers, and steam engines as motive 
power, simply because mind was external- 
izing itself through the watery sign — 
Pisces — of the Grand Man of the skies, 
or the Zodiac of Deity. All this goes to 
prove the mathematical accuracy with 
which we may relate ourselves intelli- 
gently to our God and become co-opera- 
tors with him in the unfoldment of His 
purposes of universal life-creations, for 
He is present in all His works, manifest- 
ing His will, knowledge and wisdom 
through us. 



CHAPTER III. 

THE SPHINX OR THE RIDDLE OF RIDDLES. 

This oldest of Egyptian monuments — 
symbol of the human soul, the fruitage of 
man and woman, as man-woman or Horus, 
the child of Isis, or universal mother — is 
no longer mysterious to the student of 
universal life. The Sun, symbolized by 
the lion or man-deity. The virgin, or 
woman, symbolized by virgo, or woman-de- 
ity, united in one monument as the wom- 
an's head and the lion's body, the male 
and the female united in one, is variously 
expressed as the Sun passed through the 
different signs of the zodiac in making 
the great Cycle of Necessity. 

The Sun God — Osiris — the virgin 



56 The Duality of Truth. 

mother, the womb of Isis, in which is con- 
ceived and born the child Horus — sym- 
bolizes all the progeny of Deity because 
in it is concealed potentially the Deity 
Himself, in his dual nature, man-woman 
known as Adam, the symbolical first man. 
Eve, the first symbolical woman, as 
Adam's helpmeet, or negative half of his 
divine Ego. The rays of positive and 
negative — male and female potentialities 
— are wrapt up in every Deific Ego. The 
Sphinx is the symbol of man and woman 
united, and their offspring as Horus, or 
human soul, is the Riddle of Riddles. 
The offspring are like their deific parents 
ill essence, quality and function, capable 
of self germination or renewal of them- 
selves outwardly manifested in human 
form, and of self-glorification, w r hen they 
have unfolded and rounded out their la- 



The Sphinx or the Riddle of Riddles, 57 

tent attributes and potentialities. Sex is 
the sacred law of evolution and develop- 
ment without which creation or manifes- 
tation in form could not take place. This 
law operates throughout all three king- 
doms of the universal spirit, showing us 
Deity in all His works. Thoughts are 
sexed and impregnate each other on the 
spiritual and mental planes of life and ex- 
ternalize their potentialities in physical 
forms and functions in exact correspond- 
ence to their potential nature. Deity 
thinks, and His thought-forms become 
manifest as Suns, planets and Moons con- 
taining the spiritual attributes and mental 
potentialities. They are capable of ex- 
ternalizing as the thought emanations of 
Deity Himself. These emanations con- 
tain within themselves the nature, quality 
and attributes of their deific parents. 



58 The Dtiality of Truth. 

They can only express the qualities, at- 
tributes and potential nature involved in 
them. Deity, being immortal, infinite, 
without beginning or end, so likewise are 
His manifestations as to their essence. 
Forms and functions are all that perish. 
Deity is forever progressive in His ideals 
of creative manifestations. From crude, 
undeveloped forms we witness, through 
the process of involution and evolution, 
gradual perfection of each form as it 
evolves its latent attributes. The process 
of involution, from the infinitely large to 
the infinitely small, is the creation of mat- 
ter, so-called, and the polar opposite, ex- 
pression or evolution, from matter in its 
infinitely small expression, as the atom, 
back to the infinitely large, making the 
Cycle of Necessity complete; thus per- 
fecting the deific Ego into the Angelic 



The Sphinx or the Riddle of Riddles. 59 

and Arch-angelic creations or manifesta- 
tions of the Infinite Spirit as Its highest 
and most perfect form of itself in form 
and function. Births and deaths are alike 
to the Ego as it circulates throughout De- 
ity. New forms and new functions are all 
it experiences which give knowledge and, 
finally, wisdom as the result of its com- 
plete understanding of the Cycle of Ne- 
cessity, or its circulation throughout all 
departments of the One Life, or Deity. 
In no other conceivable manner could the 
Whole impart a knowledge of Himself to 
the separate Egos. This knowledge of 
self of its own deific origin and nature. 

Immortal spirit uncreated, alone, un- 
manifest as the void or mighty deep, con- 
taining all that is, that has been, or can or 
will be, within itself. This knowledge ac- 
quired by each separate Ego makes it con- 



60 The Duality of Truth. 

scious of its origin and true worth, as an 
immortal part of the immortal whole. 
Immortality is born to its consciousness. 
It realizes who it is ? and what the object 
of the Cycle of Necessity means to it as 
a perfected child or Angel of Light, know- 
ing itself as an emanation from the foun- 
tain of Life, Light and Love. Bliss, eter- 
nal bliss, joy unspeakable, is thus attained 
and in no other way is it possible for the 
separate Egos to become conscious of im- 
mortal life. This oneness with Deity, as 
positive and negative expressions of its 
own nature. The venous and arterial cir- 
culation, symbolical of life and death, mor- 
tality and immortality, conscious and un- 
conscious life, appearance and reality, 
knowledge and wisdom, gained by reason 
of their dual circulation in the life of Deity. 
Day and night, winter and summer, are 



The Sphinx or the Riddle of Riddles. 61 

equally necessary. They are polar oppo- 
sites and can not exist apart. We can not 
know the one without the knowledge of 
the other. The realization of this law — 
the dual opposites — by polarizing the Ego 
in the scales of Libra, or justice or equi- 
librium. From this divine center all is 
One, radiating in every conceivable direc- 
tion as the spiritual Sun — the source of all 
Life, Light and Love. Worlds and sys- 
tems of universes infinite in number be- 
yond the power of mind to comprehend. 
As it is above, so it is below; therefore, 
each differentiated Ego likewise has its 
center, from which it radiates in every 
conceivable direction, in imitation of its 
Sun parents. From its center they must 
ascend and descend in their spiral orbits. 
This is the Solar Cross, upon which every 
deific Ego is crucified — purified of all 



62 The Duality of Truth. 

dross and imperfections. When its' Cycle 
of Necessity is complete and its spiritual 
attributes rounded out in its deific zodiac, 
it becomes the perfect man-woman, re- 
united in its original, deific Ego — the cen- 
ter from which it originated and from 
which it was differentiated before descent 
into material conditions took place. It is 
the Enoch of Jewish history — the man 
whom God took and was not, the Jesus of 
the Gospels, the Buddah of India, the 
Zoraster of Persia and, in short, every 
perfected Ego that has or will be restored 
to its divine parents. There is no other 
way under the Sun to become perfect. 
Perfection requires the whole of anything 
to be harmoniously united in all its parts 
and functions. Therefore, the reunion of 
the two halves of every deific Ego restores 
it to its angelhood. 



The Sphinx or the Riddle of Riddles. 63 

It has entered into its heaven, in which 
there is neither marrying nor giving in 
marriage, for the simple reason that this 
union is the heavenly marriage, spoken of 
by St. John, as the marriage of the Lamb. 
The Lamb is an astrological symbol of the 
intellect and intuition, united; symbolizing 
the perfect child. Therefore, except ye 
become as little children ye can not enter 
the kingdom of heaven; or, in harmony 
with universal life. Aries — the Lamb — 
astrologically symbolized, the intellect or 
reason, void of the intuition or the symbol 
of wisdom without love. Love lies at the 
foundation and must be wedded to wis- 
dom to perfect the Ego in its dual nature. 
Deity speaks to man through his dual 
nature and in this way only can He make 
known to His children His will- 
Imitation is the highest compliment 



64 The Duality of Truth. 

that can be paid to the Creator. To re- 
produce themselves is the holiest act of 
which the Egos are capable. The most 
sacred function is the creative, and each 
Ego, when engaged in worshipping its 
Deity, should realize this first, highest and 
holiest function of its nature by creating 
its ideas in thoughts and forms worthy of 
its deific parents. To think, is to create 
thoughts — to give birth to ideas. Increase, 
multiply and replenish the Earth was 
God's fiat to Adam, the dual man. This 
first fiat has been misunderstood by the 
human family and interpreted to mean 
physical generation only whereas the 
original and true meaning was the gener- 
ation of ideas born from Love and Wis- 
dom. To give birth to spiritual and 
mental imageries, or mental children, as 
new ideas of thought-forms or mental- 



The Sphinx or the Riddle of Riddles. 65 

creations, as thought-pictures, to inspire 
the intellect to nobler aspirations and 
higher creations of ideals, spiritually, men- 
tally and physically expressed. The Ego's 
desire to express its latent or potential 
attributes called into being this material 
Earth, and finailly clothed itself in a 
material body in order that it, too, might 
have knowledge of the Tree of Life of 
good and evil as expressed in matter and 
spirit. Deity can not be blamed for this 
as He is not responsible for the acts and 
creations of His offspring, any more so 
than each Ego is responsible for the cre- 
ations of its offspring. He is powerless 
to create otherwise than He has; there- 
fore, each separate Ego must hold itself 
responsible for its own creations and know 
itself as its own creator by obeying the 
fiat of Deity himself, to multiply and re- 



66 The Duality of Truth. 

plenish the Earth in thoughts and ideals 
of mental imagery. This is the bread of 
life to nourish the souls of men. Man 
doth not live by bread alone but every 
word that proceedeth out of the mouth of 
Deity. In order to develop spiritually we 
require mental food as much so for the 
soul as for the body. The perfect assim- 
ilation of spiritual ideas, on the mental 
plane, develops the intellect and intuition 
and rounds out the Ego in its dual nature. 
Health, happiness and heaven will thus 
be restored to Earth. Deity will be satis- 
fied with His microcosmic creations called 
man. All will be perfection and the 
golden age restored as that Garden of 
Paradise, recorded in mythological his- 
tory. The Wisdom-Religion restored to 
Earth, and science and religion blended 
as One Truth and One Law, dually ex- 
pressed. 



CHAPTER IV. 

SYMBOLISM AND CORRESPONDENCE. 

Where mind is not, there are no sym- 
bols, no ideas, no manifestations — for 
everything that is, is the outcome of 
thoughts, human or divine and expresses 
within itself the symbol of its being. This 
is the Law of Correspondence. " As it is 
above, so it is below " The infinite worlds 
that float serenely in space are but the 
scintillating reflections of Light, Life and 
Love of Deity and give us some faint idea 
or conception of the awful resources within 
Nature's star-making laboratory. The 
Solar systems, infinite in number, are but 
expressions of mental action. Symbols 
are objectified ideas and possess a real 



68 The Duality of Truth. 

meaning; originally there was but one 
great Astro-Religion, fragments of which 
are found in every country all over the 
globe. The numerous books called Bibles, 
or sacred writings, are the productions of 
serious men endeavoring to explain their 
own origin and destiny. They are similar 
in many particulars, as they one and all 
drew from the same fountain, or source for 
their knowledge, viz.: the starry heavens; 
hence astronomy and astrology were the 
first original bibles written in symbolical 
language. The Golden Lock and Silver 
Key to their esoteric meaning have been 
hidden for ages and lost to all but the few 
esoteric students of Nature's mysteries. 

Sun-worship, Serpent- worship and Sex- 
worship all have their foundations in this 
oldest of religions. Deity, as the Spirit- 
ual Sun of all Life, Light and Love, is 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 69 

sexed, and can only manifest His nature 
by the law of dual opposites. Symbols 
are ideas in objectified form; therefore, 
are real and never have or will be de- 
stroyed, nor can they be obliterated by 
man, for Deity Himself is back of them, 
expressing His Light, Life and Love 
through them. This is our hope for the 
glorious triumph for the lovers of Nature's 
language — Symbolism and Correspon- 
dence. Spirit can not deceive when this 
divine key is turned with a wise hand. 
Her secret operations reveal themselves 
in symbolical language to those capable 
of interpreting her symbols aright, for 
the material universe is but the mental 
imagery of the Ueific Mind and expresses 
His ideas in every manifested creation. 
Therefore, symbolism is the one Deific 
language of Mother Nature that defies 
the vandalism of man to destroy. 



70 The Duality of Truth. 

Astro-Theology and Astro-Mythology 
are the records of the past in which this 
language was used by the wise men of old 
to convey their ideas of Deity to their 
fellow-man. Every religion under the 
Sun has back of it Symbolism and Corre- 
spondence to veil the truths of Isis and 
Osiris — the Spiritual Sun — as man and 
woman. 

Buddhism, Brahmanism, Chaldean, 
Chinese, Persian, Egyptian, Scandina- 
vian, Druidic, and Mexican, as well as 
Jewish and Christian, each and all 
are derived from the Spiritual Sun — 
different drapery to suit each country 
and its people is all we witness. Back 
of their symbols is the everliving Spir- 
itual Sun, from whom we derive all 
Light, Life and Love. The septenary 
laws of Nature, that symbolize the 



Symbolism and Correspondence, 71 

seven planets of our solar system, sym- 
bolize the seven colors of the rainbow. 
The seven notes in music are all repre- 
sented in the diamond, which also sym- 
bolizes the seven divine rays of Deific 
crystallization, as the dual vibrations of 
positive and negative, male and female, 
as they become blended into the One 
Law, One Life, One Word and One Truth, 
which embraces and embodies w T ithin itself 
the whole of every conceivable expression 
of the visible creations or manifestations 
of Deity. Simple at its center, but very 
complex and contradictory in its infinite 
ramifications, as evolved into form, color 
and function in an infinite variety of 
organs and organisms. On the spiritual 
plane the Egos manifest Identity. On 
the mental plane, Individuality, and on 
the physical plane, Personality; hence, 



72 The Duality of Truth. 

Persona, or mask, is the outward appear- 
ance of things, while the individual is the 
real image or ideal entity that works 
through the physical or outward form. 
The mind, or mental imagery, has back of 
it the Ego or Sun. or the Identity. The 
two in one as positive and negative of 
every outward expression of mind, in its 
manifold manifestations or creations, from 
the granite rock to an Astral system of 
worlds. All creation takes form through 
this same law of polar opposites in vibra- 
tion. The Egos' desires to manifest their 
latent potentialities cause effects to come 
forth according to their knowledge and 
will-ability in understanding not only 
themselves but all about them. The 
knowledge that they are divine emana- 
tions from Deity, with the possibility of 
imitating his ideals on the planes of men- 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 73 

tal imagery and also of externalizing those 
ideals into forms of concrete matter. It is 
this law in operation which gives freedom 
to the Egos and holds them subject to 
themselves for the use or abuse they make 
of it. Knowing good and evil, positive 
and negative, they choose their associates 
in all operations or creations; enjoying or 
suffering for all acts performed, whether 
on the spiritual, mental or physical planes. 
This realm of their ideals is their book of 
life out of which they judge themselves. 
It is their heaven or hell, of their own 
creation. Their happiness or misery de- 
pends upon the mental imagery with 
which they have surrounded themselves. 
If they have been selfish, lustful, avari- 
cious, or cruel — unjust tyrants — these im- 
ages will be their accusers, and they are 
self-condemned for creating such a state 
of disease, discord and misery. 



74 The Duality of Truth. 

Before' the Egos, thus situated and 
polarized, can restore themselves to a 
state of happiness, they must learn charity, 
forbearance, mercy, generosity, kindness, 
justness and love for all conditions of 
God's creations. Each Ego, as it circu- 
lates throughout the whole organism of 
the Macrocosm must experience both 
poles of its vibratory law of good and evil 
— of love and hate, of wisdom and igno- 
rance, and harmony and discord. It be- 
comes master of itself only as it controls 
the dual operations of its nature. On the 
three planes of Identity, Individuality and 
Personality — where all illusions and de- 
lusions of the mind and its creations, in 
ideals, material forms and colors, are 
nothing but appearances, due to the angle 
of vision and plane of vibration upon 
which they temporarily manifest. It is 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 75 

this knowledge of self which enables them 
to scan the whole of God's vast universe 
in analysis and synthesis. Having the 
knowledge of good and evil within them- 
selves, and having mastered self hence- 
forth they know the tree of immortal life 
and have become Gods by reason of their 
development of their God-given attributes 
or potentialities. These divine potenti- 
alities are wrapped up in each deific Ego 
and await their unfoldment to manifest 
their God-nature, which culminates on 
the plane of Identity, as the reunion of 
man and woman into the Angel of Light, 
Life and Love — a trinity of Deity in form, 
physical, mental and spiritual. This is 
the symbol of the Sphinx — the Riddle of 
every age — and will remain a Riddle until 
all deific Egos have solved it for them- 
selves. 



j6 The Duality of Truth. 

The Gods are charged with burning 
the bridge behind them so that no mortal 
has been able to cross the rivers Lethe 
and Styx, but this destruction of the 
bridge is more an appearance than a re- 
ality. To the true lover of Divine Wis- 
dom his intuitions tell him he, too, has an 
opposite half and the desire for the One- 
ness of life that will bring the missing link 
to him in love and a balanced justness of 
mind in which he sees the law of polar 
opposites in everything. He is no longer 
critical, in mental bias, condemning this, 
that or the other. He sees both sides and 
is just both to his enemy, and to himself. 
Henceforth, all truth to him is a paradox, 
It has two aspects — the one of appear- 
ances, while the other is real and the two 
united become One Law, One Truth, One 
Word and One God. He realizes that he 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 77 

is the dual expression of that One Law. 
This knowledge of himself, in conscious- 
ness of his male and female nature — his 
love and wisdom — crowns him with under- 
standing as the epitome of Deity — the 
Microcosmic Man. O, what profound wis- 
dom and knowledge are concealed in 
Symbolism and Correspondence. The 
interpretation of it becomes a revelation 
and a flood of light pours in upon the 
mind as the curtain is drawn back for 
modern generations to see the scenes be- 
hind the veil. There is nothing new in 
all this spectacular panorama of Nature's 
laws dually expressed. They are as old 
as Deity Himself — without beginning and 
without end. They only appear new to 
each generation of Egos as they review 
them from their angle of vision. But this 
optical illusion soon vanishes when the 



78 The Duality of Truth. 

united Egos sum up their conclusions — 
the results of their separate experiences 
through the Cycle of Necessity of involu- 
tion and evolution. 

This is the knowledge that makes 
them free. No longer bound by appear- 
ances, or conventional rules, their divine 
nature realized supplies their every want 
in harmony, happiness, health and heaven. 
Their thoughts and acts are just. Heaven 
is of their own creation. Henceforth 
they enjoy the fruits of their spiritual, 
mental and physical relations — even as 
Deity does — having obeyed the law to be 
perfect, even as Deity is perfect — two in 
one, forever more. 

• Before the foregoing can be realized 
by the dual halves of each Ego what I 
now relate must be experienced. Each 
separate half has, during its evolution 



Symbolism and Correspondence, 79 

from the animal soul into the human 
magnetically contacted those that ema- 
nated from its own divine center. The 
time for separation or divorce has come. 
Before they can ascend the throne, as 
king and queen, they must be changed in 
their polarity of vibrative law. Their own 
desires and aspirations are obeyed; hence, 
they encounter all kinds of troubles, trials, 
vexations, disappointments, even unto 
death. They must give up the lower in 
order to possess the higher. The tangled 
skeins of their former lives are here un- 
wound and it is this experience that 
causes the strangest and most unlooked 
for events. Social ties are broken up; 
religious beliefs are thrown to the wind; 
false friends are bidden adieu forever; 
false philosophies and false religions must 
likewise be abandoned before the truth 



80 The Duality of Truth. 

can be realized. It is this which gives 
the tragedy and comedy to life — that 
seems so mysterious, at times, in the shock 
of sudden death, suicide, murder and 
divorce. 

Nature's laws can not be thwarted in 
their operation. Complex and compli- 
cated, though they be the law of sequence, 
or cause and effect, is back of every phe- 
nomenon. This is the knowledge which 
gives wisdom to obey the divine com- 
mand of our higher nature — to be just, 
truthful, upright, moral, virtuous — which 
results in harmony and heaven. It real- 
izes the difference between seeming, or 
shadow, or the real and absolute. The 
illusions of its lower senses or animal soul 
— the delusion of its false ideals — vanish 
forever as the truth shines out at last, 
which makes it free. It knows itself as 
it is, not as it seems to be. 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 81 

Charity covers a multitude of sins, or 
errors that, after all, were only illusions 
and false ideals of appearances, due to 
the angle of vision from which the Ego 
was, for the time being, experiencing its 
vibrations or sensations. The sorrows of 
Satan are equally real with those of the 
Christ. Both are the necessary outcome 
of their relative relations to the One Life, 
One Law, One Truth, One Principle and 
One God. 

The Winged Globe of the Egyptians 
— symbol of the two halves of every deific 
Ego consciously united — relates them to 
the polar star, which is the finger of des- 
tiny to point out to them their relation to 
their divine center as they circulate over 
the trackless ocean of universal life. 
They never can be lost to each other, nor 
separated. Like the magnet, they attract 



82 The Duality of Truth. 

to themselves all they require for their 
life's completeness. At every turn of the 
Zodiacal wheel, or wheel of destiny, cycle 
after cycle, eon upon eon, forever more. 
Henceforth they have the Silver Key to 
the Golden Lock that will admit them 
into the Holy of Holies — the Temple of 
Two Truths. The profound revelation 
herein disclosed, however, can never be 
explained to any but themselves. It is 
here they worship God in spirit and in 
truth. He desires such angelic beings to 
worship Him, and it is here He enters into 
them and they become filled to repletion 
with the joy and peace that passeth under- 
standing. My Father and I are One. 

The mystery of Godliness is here felt 
and realized by all those who attain the 
Crown. The esoteric laws of the inner 
mysteries can never be revealed on this 



Symbolism and Correspondence, 83 

outer plane of life. They are too trans- 
cendent for the general reader to com- 
prehend; therefore, we will not attempt 
to describe them, as words fail to convey 
our ideas and thoughts. Symbols alone 
are able to convey their true meaning, 
and Correspondence translate the sym- 
bolic language into ideas and words of 
comprehension to those who possess the 
knowledge and wisdom to interpret and 
understand them aright. If the Deity is 
not ashamed of His own creations or 
manifestations there certainly is no just 
reason why we, as His children, should 
be. Our false education — the false theo- 
ries and ideas regarding sex and its laws 
— are responsible for the misery and suf- 
fering generated through this function of 
our being. We cheat ourselves into the 
belief that by ignoring sex we live above 



84 The Duality of Truth. 

body, forgetting that spirit is sexed also 
and must be recognized on the mental 
and spiritual planes of our ideal crea- 
tions. Purity is symbolized by a little 
child — the symbol of perfect love and 
chastity. Those only are partakers of 
Love's fruits who plant and nourish it. 
To the pure in heart, God is pure in all 
His functions. 

Freedom to think and act in the rela- 
tion of the part to the whole as co-oper- 
ator with it makes man a God. This 
wisdom and understanding makes them 
responsible to themselves for every 
thought and act; therefore, become wise 
and plant only the seeds of goodness that 
you may inherit the joys of immortal life. 
The law of correspondence, " As it is be- 
low, so it is above," is true on all planes 
of our relation to Deity. The laws gov- 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 85 

erning the spiritual plane only transcend 
those of the physical in vibrative expres- 
sion and function, which is due to a 
changed polarity of the Ego. Each plane 
is governed by its own laws; hence, there 
is perfect harmony between them, in there 
action and reaction, which gives rise to 
innumerable pictures of mental and spir- 
itual imagery. Identity means the same; 
therefore, on the spiritual plane all are 
one. The Egos that gain their identity 
in consciousness have made the Cycle of 
Necessity and are conscious of their one- 
ness with Deity. The wisdom of Egypt, 
as revealed to us by their mighty monu- 
ments and temples, built in solid masonry, 
that have stood the ravishing hand of 
vandals as w r ell as the effects of cime, 
symbolize to us the Sun's passage through 
the Zodiac. Each Sphinx symbolized the 



86 The Ditality of Truth. 

dual relation of the sign through which 
the Sun was passing; hence, long avenues 
of these stony records of time prove con- 
clusively the hoary past. We know it 
takes 2,160 years for the Sun to pass 
through one sign of the Zodiac, and, as 
there are twelve signs, it takes 25,920 
years to make one complete revolution. 
By this we see the wisdom of their stony 
monuments as a record of time. In no 
other way could they have preserved, for 
future generations, a record of their 
knowledge of astronomy and astrology. 
The Sun, Moon and planets, with the 
twelve signs of the Zodiac, in their rela- 
tion to each other, form the basic founda-' 
tion of their Wisdom-Religion, and it is, 
indeed, wonderful when we become famil- 
iar with this symbolic language — the pro- 
found wisdom concealed therein. The 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 87 

whole of Nature is herein symbolized in 
imagery and correspondence. Earth, Air, 
Fire and Water — Oxygen, Hydrogen, 
Nitrogen and Carbon — are herein sym- 
bolized physically and metaphysically. 
Every phenomenon of life, visible as well 
as invisible, stands out before us in sym- 
bolical ideas as realities of living beings. 
Living entities on every plane of life are 
plainly revealed to the astrological mind. 
The Alchemist understood how to trans- 
mute the different elements back into 
their original forms of ideals; this, with 
him, was magic; hence, he was justly 
called magician, because he was familiar 
with Nature's laws of polarization and de- 
polarization of matter and spirit. These 
laws can not be explained in words intel- 
ligently — they can only be symbolized to 
our intelligence. It would be useless, 



88 The Duality of Truth. 

therefore, to attempt to describe that 
which is magical in Nature's operations. 
We know the tree grows and bears its 
fruit, but how? Who can answer? Na- 
ture's silent workings are very mysterious 
and only the wise can understand. The 
modern chemist of to-day can make a 
grain of wheat, but can he put the life- 
principle in it that will make it grow? 
No, he can not. It is this principle — life 
— with which the magician deals. It is 
The Elixir of Life — The Philosopher's 
Stone. But these terms convey no intel- 
ligent idea to the mind of the general 
reader because he thinks of them in the 
letter which kills. They require the spirit 
to electrify and vivify them to conscious- 
ness in the mind of the alchemist or ma- 
gician. Thus he becomes a creator, cre- 
ating life from life. Manifesting his ideals 



Symbolism and Correspondence, 89 

outwardly in visible forms. This is magic, 
as explained by Symbolism and Corre- 
spondence. The Pyramids of Egypt are 
symbolical monuments in honor of the 
Spiritual Sun, whom the Egyptians wor- 
shiped. They embody within them their 
knowledge and wisdom of the starry 
heavens. The Suns, Stars and planets 
speak in silent eloquence through those 
stony monuments. The symbolical lan- 
guage, therein contained, has never been 
revealed other than to Initiates of Na- 
ture's occult laws. They symbolize the 
four elements — Earth, Air, Fire and Wa- 
ter — the East, West, North and South; 
also, the harmony as revealed by the 
trinity of Nature's elements as they relate 
to the whole; likewise, the duad as father 
and mother ; also, the monad as One 
Law, One Truth, One Principle and One 



go The Duality of Truth. 

God. The circle with a dot in the center 
—the symbol of the Spiritual Sun — whose 
center is everywhere — and whose circum- 
ference is nowhere. Omniscience and 
Omnipresence is thus symbolized, for all 
eternity, can not bring us any nearer to 
Deity other than in consciousness of our 
oneness with Him in essence — in thought, 
in knowledge and wisdom — all of which 
will continue to grow forever; therefore, 
we are in duty bound to add our store of 
increased knowledge to the stone monu- 
ments of Egypt, that symbolize to the 
world their understanding and wisdom — 
the sum total of their knowledge during 
the Sun's passage through the Zodiac in 
their cycle of time. As He is repeating 
Himself in the present cycle, on the plane 
of mind, we must spiritualize the ideas 
embodied in the stony monuments, not in 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 91 

masonry built in granite but in masonic 
imagery, in thought-forms and ideals to 
correspond on the plane of mind. 

We can admire, with just pride, the 
wisdom of the ancient Egyptians and 
credit them with their due for what they 
have done for the race. Avenues of 
Sphinxs— symbols of the Sun's passage 
through every sign of the Zodiac, and 
pyramids innumerable, all symbolic of the 
material, mental and spiritual ideas they 
had in mind when building for future gen- 
erations. They knew perfectly well the 
utter impossibility of transmitting in writ- 
ing the truths of Nature they possessed. 
They were acquainted with the animal 
man, the old Adam, in whom resides sel- 
fishness, lust, pride, vanity and ambition, 
love of power, earthly rule and glory. 
They dare not trust him to transmit the 



92 The Duality of Truth. 

knowledge and wisdom they possess to 
future generations, as they knew it would 
be lost, destroyed and forever obliterated 
from the fair face of our beautiful planet 
Earth, during the night-time of the Sun's 
sub-cycle. Therefore, at great cost, 
financially and enormous cost physically, 
they designed and executed the silent 
monuments out of solid masonry to em- 
body their ideas of the Sun, Moon and 
planets in their revolutions around the 
Spiritual Sun of all Life, Light and Love. 
They are thus made to speak the wisdom 
of creation in symbols of immortal life. 
Vandals and thieves have done their best 
to destroy their works, but without avail; 
for they live and will continue to live so 
long as our Earth shall remain, for the 
symbolic language is God's silent elo- 
quence expressed in Symbolism and Cor- 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 93 

respondence to the children of men. The 
time has come to reveal the mental im- 
agery concealed within them, by their 
builders, as they must have had the ideals 
before they could embody them into ma- 
sonry. The Law of Correspondence — "as 
it is above, so it is below" — was the law of 
Hermes, the father and founder of Her- 
metic Philosophy, in whose honor I quote 
the following poem: 

HERMES TRISMEGISTUS. 

Still through Egypt's desert places 

Flows the lordly Nile; 
And from its banks, the great stone faces 

Gaze with patient smile; 
Still the Pyramids imperious 

Pierce the cloudless skies; 
And the Sphinx stares with mysterious, 

Solemn, stony eyes. 



94 The Duality of Truth. 

But where are the old Egyptians, 

Demi-Gods and Kings? 
Nothing left but an inscription, 

Graven on stones and rings; 
Where is now that mighty Priesthood, 

Whose actions were by Gods impelled ? 
Where is Hermes Trismegistus 

Who their awful secrets held? 

Who shall call his dreams fallacious? 

Who has searched and sought 
All the unexplored and spacious 

Universe of thought? 
Who! in his own skill confiding, 

Shall with rule and line, 
Mark the border land dividing 

Human and Divine? 

Trismegistus! three times greatest, 

How thy name sublime 
Has descended to this latest 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 95 

Progeny of time. 
Happy they whose written pages 

Perish with their lives; 
If amid the crumbling ages 

Still their name survives. 

Thine, O Priest of Egypt, lately, 

Found I, in the vast, 
Weed-encumbered, sombre, stately, 

Graveyard of the past, 
And a presence moved before me 

On that gloomy shore, 
As a waft of Wand that o'er me 

Breathed and was no more. 

H. W. L 



The lidless Sarcophagus, in the King's 
chamber, has an esoteric meaning of the 
soul's flight out df matter, its material 
body, into the realms of spirit. Likewise, 
the Queen's chamber symbolizes their 



q6 The Duality of Truth. 

wisdom of woman's relation to man, spir- 
itually. No sarcophagus is found in that 
chamber, for woman enters into man oc- 
cultly, like the Sun into vegetation. "She 
becomes the spiritual aroma of his Soul: 
the celestial flora of his spirit," which 
teaches, in symbolic language, the immor- 
tality of the soul, as the two rays of the 
Divine Ego. Hence, only one sarcopha- 
gus is found — lidless and empty — to sym- 
bolize the idea of the spirit's resurrection. 
Before the below can become as the above, 
the material must become ideal, as it pre- 
ceded the material, hence spirit is dual — 
male and female, or positive and nega- 
tive — united as one. Thus corresponding 
to matter and spirit, as Alpha and Omega, 
the beginning and the end. The Sun's 
rays, encircling this material monument, 
at mid-day, throwing a halo, which formed 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 97 

a circle around the Great Pyramid, called 
Cheops, in honor of its founder. 

The Universe is based upon a geomet- 
rical figure included in a mathematical 
sum. The ancient Theosophists taught 
that there existed throughout all being 
this universal law of Correspondence. 
Life, Light and Love are symbolized as 
mind in action from the Spiritual Sun; 
every sound in the universe, every shade 
of color, must combine to produce the 
pure, white light. Every creature must 
be a definite part; every thing an organ 
or organism belonging to the vast whole, 
all interpreted by the Law of Corre- 
spondence. The Key Stone which binds 
and combines all the separate parts of the 
grand temple of humanity into one mighty 
whole is the Key Stone that the builders 
rejected which becomes the head of the 



q8 The Duality of Truth. 

corner. This great Pyramid, Cheops, is 
this rejected stone. Long has it waited 
for recognition. The builders of science 
threw it away, not knowing that it was 
the arch-stone of the Universe itself. 
To the Masonic Lodge of the Divine 
Mason, in which all the principles of 
science are found, from an atom to an 
Astral System. In its combinations are 
expressed the truths of astronomy, astrol- 
ogy, mathematics, geometry, by which the 
Universe is mapped out in lines, angles, 
squares and circles, arranged in just rela- 
tions to each other, and united together 
in the grand circle of Infinity. The Great 
Pyramid was built to symbolize these 
great truths and to preserve its mysteries 
and perpetuate its meaning from genera- 
tion to generation. "My soul is at one 
with the Universe, and my spirit an ema- 



Symbolism and Correspondence. gg 

nation from Deity." This knowledge the 
Egyptians symbolized, over and over 
again, in their stony monuments. There- 
fore, there is nothing new under the sun, 
saith Solomon. The soul of man, in con- 
* scious relation with his Divine parents, 
awakens to the realization that as a part 
of the whole it, too, has its responsibilities 
in proportion to its knowledge of self and 
its environments. Evolution is the means 
of development, growth or unfoldment, of 
its latent potentialities. Its desires, aspi- 
rations and longings for knowledge and 
wisdom attract it and relate it to the very 
circumstances and conditions that will call 
into active use every faculty of its being 
to round out and develop its latent attri- 
butes. O, for knowledge and wisdom to 
write the truths that will aid mankind to 
rise superior to their present environment. 



ioo The Duality of Truth. 

May it please the Gods to give this knowl- 
edge as mental food, to inquiring man- 
kind, that will assist their soul's growth to 
maturity, that they may be so nourished 
as to perfect their latent faculties into 
perfect man and womanhood. 

We implore, Thee, O Michael, thou 
present ruler of the sub-cycle of the Sun, 
to inspire us with fire, energy and zeal, 
and kindle within us that divine spark 
which will, when awakened, make us real- 
ize our possibilities as a nation. The past 
history of our book of life is ours to read, 
study and understand. Help us to in- 
terpret its every page correctly and profit 
by the lessons recorded on the monu- 
ments and ruins now found all over its 
surface. The science of geology, miner- 
alogy, botony, zoology, astronomy and 
astrology, archeology, astro-mythology 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 101 

and astro-theology, as well as modern 
science in all its various departments, all 
lend us their aid; but, we feel the neces- 
sity of more Life, more Love, more Wis- 
dom, to enable the soul of man to solve 
the mystery of his being and rise to the 
full completeness that will alone be satis- 
factory to him. He intuitively feels that 
all Nature is his in every department 
thereof, as he is capable of its analysis 
and synthesis; he must not only know 
himself, but all else about him, that he 
may aid the race to which he belongs to 
work out its destiny. Life is a mystery 
to the struggling monad, and its solution 
alone can satisfy the hungry soul. To 
know it always has been, and that it always 
will be, is a solid foundation on which it 
can build its temple of truth in architect- 
ural designs worthy of its divine parents. 



' 102 The Duality of Truth. 

To co-operate with Deity we must become 
alive in body, mind and spirit. The goal 
leads us on as our faculties enlarge and 
expand. The demand grows for more 
light, more knowledge, more wisdom, that 
it may rise into its God-nature and aid the 
race to evolve all its latent possibilities — 
spiritually, mentally and physically. Per- 
fection will thus be attained, Adeptship a 
realized fact and Hermes Trismegistus 
will not be ashamed of the numerous fol- 
lowers of his teachings. Truth alone shall 
make you free; therefore, love it, cherish 
it and acquire it, as in it, resides all time 
and eternity. No atom had a beginning, 
and can not have an end. All are related 
to the whole. Periods of time, measured 
by the Sun, in its cyclic revolutions 
through the Zodiac, repeat themselves the 
same as day and night, winter and sum- 



Symbolism and Correspondence, 103 

mer, and as each revolution gives results 
natural to its cycle so there can only be a 
repetition with the variations due to the 
cycle or season manifesting itself. These 
differences are infinite in their detail re- 
sults on the different cycles and rounds of 
evolution and involution, and are the 
cause of Nature expressing herself so infi- 
nitely diverse. No two days have the same 
exact relation. No two years are the 
same in their cyclic path. No two cycles 
of time manifest exactly the same fruitage. 
Therefore, we witness diversity in unity. 
It is this law of life, or being, that mani- 
fests the dual opposites, w T hich proves the 
Law of Correspondence to be true, u as it 
is below, so it is above." 

Deity, manifested in matter and mind, 
on the different planes, on the different 
spirals, manifesting His presence in all 



104 • The Duality of Truth. 

His works. Astral systems of universes 
manifest intelligence and wisdom through- 
out the whole. As spirits, in making our 
Cycle of Necessity through the whole, we 
become familiar with the appearances and 
realities of every expression of spirit and 
matter, as it changes its forms and func- 
tions from the infinitely large to the infi- 
nitely small. Suns, and their attendant 
planets, peopled with their ideals or men- 
tal creations, which take form and become 
crystallized into material expressions of 
animal and vegetable plant and tree, with 
an infinite variety of fruitage which cor- 
responds to mind in its imagery. There 
is, therefore, no hard and fast lines that 
can not be deviated from in Nature's 
operations. But, on the contrary, one 
Law, that is as infinite as Deity for it is 
His Law or Will manifesting in every 



Symbolism and Correspondence, 105 

thing. He is the all in all, and nothing 
can, or will, be manifested apart from 
Him. To realize this law and conform 
to its operations, is the highest knowledge 
attainable by the differentiated atoms of 
the one Spirit, we call God or Deity. By 
whatever name He is called He is ever 
the same, yesterday, to-day, and will be 
forever. Therefore, we can get no nearer 
to Him, except in consciousness of recog- 
nition of His wonderful power, majesty 
and wisdom, displayed in what we witness 
about us on every hand. The heavens 
declare to us in their glory His absolute 
knowledge of every Sun and its offspring. 
They obey the triune law of matter, mind 
and spirit in their relations to each other, 
as well as in their manifested life forms, 
which are graded from the highest Arch- 
Angel to the protoplasmic jelly like sub- 



106 The Duality of Truth. 

stance in which motion is the only expres- 
sion of being or life. Yet here is visible 
the same wisdom manifested in the lar- 
ger substance, called Earth, only differing 
in degree. Life, therefore, is Deity, and 
all expressions thereof, whether large or 
small, whether Suns or planets, or their 
offspring, are under the One Law of Life, 
expressing one, and only one, deific intel- 
ligence, divided into an infinite number of 
subordinate intelligences, graded in wis- 
dom, knowledge and power from world- 
builders to house-builders; each, in his 
relative relations, actively at work crea- 
ting, co-operating with Deity as parts of 
the whole. World-builders are spiritual 
intelligences, invisible to this plane of 
life, and are related to the Universal 
Spirit as parts of the whole the same 
as we of this material Earth are parts 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 107 

of it, living on and of it. They are infi- 
nitely wise in their knowledge of Deity, 
obeying His will, co-operating with Him, 
to carry out and perfect the Deific crea- 
tions on the interior planes of life, while 
we, of the material Earth, co-opera;te 
through the laws of matter to build up 
ideals upon the plane of matter. We are 
all related together as bone to muscle, 
nerve to brain, the highest material sub- 
stance through which the Universal Spirit 
manifests Its intelligence, through the Law 
of Correspondence. In this way, matter is 
moved, moulded, formed and manifested 
in creative designs to correspond to the 
mental imagery created on the plane of 
mind. In the Cycle of Necessity each 
atom experiences its deific nature as 
spirit, soul and matter; or, in other words, 
it becomes solids, liquids, gases or ethers 



108 The Duality of Truth. 

alternately. The knowledge thus accu- 
mulated by actual experience becomes 
wisdom or understanding, self-knowledge 
— one with Deity — co-operating with Him, 
obeying His will as naturally as gravita* 
tion or levitation — two expressions of One 
Law — that are everywhere manifesting 
themselves without beginning and with- 
out end — cycle after cycle — forever and 
forever — alternately expressing night and 
day, mentally and physically, as polar op- 
posites of the Deific life. Deity is in no 
hurry. Slowly, imperceptibly, but surely, 
He accomplishes His work. There are 
no failures. That which seems so to us 
is equally necessary as that which we 
know to be so. If Nature is thwarted in 
one direction or creation, she soon evolves 
another in a new direction. Light shines 
and darkness disappears. The Sun is the 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 109 

great source of all Life, Light and Love. 
It contains all within itself potentially and 
radiates from its surface in every conceiv- 
able direction the rays of Life and Love 
that externalize every form of flora and 
fauna; in short, life in all its grandeur, 
owes its manifestation to the Sun. 

Love is divine fire — the moulding, ger- 
minating, fructifying agency — that evolves 
the latent potentialities hidden in the soil, 
plant, tree or animal or man. The soul of 
man becomes illuminated and is aglow 
with heat, fire, zeal, energy and ambition. 
In short, it is full of ideas, plans, concep- 
tions for the promotion, development and 
perfection of the race. How best it can 
aid Nature to evolve the powers and 
potentialities in soil and brain; to feed 
and clothe the people physically and 
mentally, for they require both physical 



no The Duality of Truth. 

and mental nourishment to satisfy their 
dual nature of soul and body. This phys- 
ical growth and development depends as 
much upon his soul's nourishment as his 
physical body does upon the proper phys- 
ical food. There must be a daily gym- 
nastic exercise of the mind as well as of 
the body. How best to do this will now 
be considered, as no two individuals are 
alike, and no two require the same sub- 
stances for food or the same physical 
exercise, it is reasonable to infer that a 
variety of both would be necessary for 
the soul's highest development. Experi- 
ence has demonstrated this theory to be 
true. All must study their requirements 
and obey their higher selves in supplying 
the requisites necessary for their soul's 
development. The desire for unfoldment 
is the first requisite and until this desire 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 1 1 1 

has taken control of the mind or soul no 
amount of artificial work can or will avail 
to evolve the soul's higher senses. To 
force food upon our associates, whether 
of a mental or physical nature, is wrong 
and will only result in disease, either 
mental or physical or both; therefore, 
only feed the hungry and only give them 
such food as they can readily assimilate. 
Much real harm is done by indiscrimi- 
nately trying to force upon others what 
they do not want or require. We have 
no right to do this and will find in the 
long run that it is not wisdom to do so. as 
Nature will hold us responsible and make 
us pay to the uttermost farthing before 
our own development can be accom- 
plished. Nature has a great variety of 
moods. She requires the storms, tem- 
pests, cyclones and earthquakes, as well 



H2 The Duality of Truth. 

as the sunshine and shade. All are re- 
quired to accomplish the dual action and 
results of the One Law, dually expressed. 
Hell and heaven go side by side, as polar 
opposites, on every plane of being. Ac- 
tion is followed by reaction, which fre- 
quently kills. Life is followed by death, 
which is only a new birth on another 
plane of vibration. Hard, indeed, is it 
for the struggling atom to realize the 
meaning of this constant change of form 
and function. Experience is its only 
guide to truth. It knows only what it 
has experienced, whether of happiness 
or misery, and as no two atoms have the 
same functions to perform, no two have 
the same experience. Diversity in every- 
thing is the outcome of this law of change, 
and man the culmination of its action, is 
the knower. He has become wise through 



Symbolism and Correspondence, 113 

association and assimilation of all the 
vibrations forced upon him by planetary 
relation and his own chosen field of oper- 
ation. He has a free will in this sense, 
only. He can do, think and act on either 
side of his equatorial line of march within 
certain limits. His knowledge thus gained 
enables him to realize how very small and 
feeble he is when brought face to face 
with the Universal Force or Will. All he 
can do is obey its sweep of spiral mo- 
tion. Like the tide of the ocean, he 
moves in and out, up and down, through- 
out the whole. To relate oneself in 
quietude and tranquillity of mind and 
body is to experience health, happiness or 
heaven. Man, in his ripeness of experi- 
ence thus gained, learns to know himself, 
and this knowledge causes him to ignore 
himself — not that he despises his minia- 



H4 The Duality of Truth. 

ture relation to life, but he realizes the 
truth of his bei'ng as an atom in the whole, 
indifferent to what relation he may be in 
at the time, knowing it will be but a brief 
moment when he must experience a dif- 
ferent relation to the whole. He becomes 
reconciled to his fate, whatever it may be, 
and takes all things as they come, both 
harmony and discord, happiness or mis- 
ery, heaven or hell, life or death. 

In this state of mind he is said to ignore 
himself and think only of the whole. He 
dies to self and is born to God, as his 
child, co-operating in every way he can 
to assist the necessary evolution of all 
with whom he is related. To kill selfish- 
ness is no small task, as it implies over- 
coming the animal soul and subordinating 
it to the human or divine soul. The Ego 
has changed its polarity to one of immor- 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 115 

tality. It has become aroused from ap- 
parent death to conscious life, and holds 
itself responsible for its thoughts and acts. 
It is this that separates it from the mere 
animal man. Its God-nature becomes the 
dominating factor in all it does — not for 
self, but for Deity, in whom it lives, 
moves, and has its being. Love enters 
into all its relations to life, as it no longer 
lives for its personal gratification. Its 
will has become polarized by the universal 
will — its mind by the universal mind — and 
it sees with the spiritual and mental, as 
well as with the physical sight. It has 
become a triune being like its God. This 
consciousness of its relation to the whole, 
is borne in upon the soul, as an image of 
itself, an exact counterpart of the whole 
as a miniature universe, complete within 
itself. It is a center of life, vibrating to 



n6 The Duality of Truth. 

all its organs and they to it, in exact cor- 
respondence of the Sun and planets of 
our solar system. 

The heart is symbolical of the Sun. 
The different organs of the body all per- 
form their separate functions, and thus the 
whole is sustained and health and happi- 
ness maintained. Without this co-opera- 
tion, discord and dissolution would be 
inevitable. Therefore it is easy to see 
that we sustain a similar relation to Deity. 
If we obey the divine law of heaven, equi- 
librium or justice — health and happiness 
— is the result; but disobedience to this 
law results in discord and death, on every 
plane of our being. No other result can 
follow; therefore, it is our duty to do all 
we can to maintain health and harmony 
in ourselves and all about us, as by this 
means we assist to the health of the 



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whole. To "realize our responsibility to 
Deity and obey it, is all we can do as in- 
dividual atoms, and if all atoms did like- 
wise, all would be healthy and happy. 
But here comes in the free-will to choose 
wrong and suffer and cause others to suf- 
fer with us until we are sick unto death 
with its folly and ignorance. The knowl- 
edge, thus gained, causes us to resolve 
and return to obedience of the One Law 
— of the One Life, dually expressed — and 
obey its every mandate, by balancing its 
relation between the two extremes of its 
dual life, and thus serve Deity instead of 
self. It has become wise through expe- 
rience in suffering and dying — being born 
again under new and different relations 
to life — until it has the knowledge of the 
tree of life of good and evil. And, obey- 
ing the injunction to live forever, it has 



n8 The Duality of Truth. 

created immortality for itself. It hence- 
forth recognizes the Gods or individual 
beings like itself that have obeyed the 
same law and inherited their birthright 
equally with its own inheritance. Self is 
swallowed into the whole, as an atom of 
water into the great ocean. All atoms 
contain their separate shape and individ- 
uality forever, but their identity is that 
quality or function that they have fitted 
themselves to fill, by reason of their 
knowledge and wisdom of themselves and 
their relation to the whole. No two have 
the same knowledge or wisdom — all are 
different in power and beauty, and it is 
this diversity that makes God or Deity 
absolute and immortal. Each atom im- 
proves itself and becomes wiser and all 
acting together in wisdom, knowledge and 
understanding, is the cause of the Deific 



Symbolism and Correspondence, 119 

progression in forms and functions, cycle 
after cycle, ad infinitum. 

The souls, being male and female, pos- 
itive and negative, perfect each the 
other as well as themselves individually; 
and thus, perfection is attained for the 
whole. The universal spirit, called Deity, 
has evolved its latent attributes and per- 
fected its potentialities. The Cycle of 
Necessity has been traversed. Spiritual 
and mental universes created, destroyed 
and recreated into higher and into more 
perfect organisms to satisfy the ever-long- 
ing demands of the deific souls for per- 
fection. Without this spirit of unrest no 
such results could have been accom- 
plished; therefore, awake, O souls, to thy 
responsibility and realize thy possibilities 
in harmonious relation with the brother- 
hood and sisterhood of man. Build up the 



1 20 The Duality of Truth. 

fatherhood and motherhood of God. We 
have each created our selfhood — an ideal 
of our Creator in evolving our God-nature ; 
it is this which has cost us so much pain 
and sorrow, as well as ultimate happiness 
and heaven. We have gone through hell 
in order to appreciate heaven and learn 
justice to all and ourselves alike. Only in 
this knowledge and wisdom applied can 
heaven or harmony be sustained. Hence 
we have war in heaven when this dual 
law is disobeyed. The wrath of man shall 
praise God. 

Be ye angry and sin not; that is, do 
not act or speak in an unreasonable man- 
ner. Excitement is that state of mind 
that gives the fullest expression to the 
soul's attributes and, if guided aright, 
and not allowed to guide or rule us, en- 
ables the soul to accomplish work while 



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under the benign influence that it could 
not accomplish otherwise. Like a steam 
engine, with a full head of steam, it can 
pull more than when the steam is low in 
the boiler. Some things can not be ac- 
complished by us until we become en- 
thused; then the work is done, and well 
done, as it should be for all concerned, 
"Sin not" does not enter into our work, 
for the motive that caused the excite- 
ment was the polar opposite; we, there- 
fore are made to realize the proper use 
of the soul's every function and attributes 
in its dual action. The use, and not the 
abuse, is what we should desire of every 
organ of body and brain. Combative- 
ness, constructiveness and amativeness 
must be used aright; then they are our 
most useful organs, as they aid us to 
create, build and destroy that which 



122 The Duality of Trtith. 

must be destroyed before the new 
can take its place whether in thought 
or material creations. The iconoclast, 
or God-destroyer, is necessary to the 
healthy growth of religion, philosophy 
or science, Idolatry, of every kind, must 
be destroyed, that the true God may be 
worshiped in spirit and in truth. Whom 
the Gods wish to destroy, they first make 
mad, then disintegration is easy, because 
the degree of heat and fire that consumes 
having been kindled. It is a species of 
insanity, the polar opposite of sanity. 
The middle line between the two ex- 
tremes is the only safe path for the soul's 
healthy, normal expression. This rule 
will apply to every relation of life, to 
every plane of life. Equilibrium is jus- 
tice, harmony, health, heaven. 

Love lieth at the foundation of every 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 123 

creation of the most high. Love of life, 
light, truth, knowledge, wisdom, happi- 
ness, harmony, heaven. This love-law, 
being dual in its action, we witness hate, 
jealousy and revenge as its opposite action; 
here, again, the two poles of the One 
Law manifest the exact opposite results. 
Love must express itself by kindness, 
benevolence, charity, forbearance, gen- 
erosity — in short, must act justly in order 
that its exercise may bring forth, normal 
healthy fruitage. The right use of and 
exercise of all our organs and functions 
are necessary to health and happiness. 
Their abuse can only result in disease, 
discord and death, which means a new 
birth on another plane of life. Here, 
again, we witness that both poles of the 
dual law are necessary to the higher ex- 
pression of life, in thought and form, to 



124 The Duality of Truth. 

evolve the latent potentialities of the soul. 
Wisdom is displayed in all God's laws, 
when they are understood in their fullness 
and completeness of operation. Creation 
is only manifestation, but before mani- 
festation can be accomplished on this out- 
ward plane of matter the spirit atoms 
must die by changing their polarity of 
vibration. This polarity of the spirit is 
the birth of matter. 

The invisible spirit has become visible 
and the material universe is the result. 
Hence, evolution is necessary for the 
spirit's return to its original life. Before 
it can return its involved attributes must 
become manifest in material form and 
ideal conceptions on the planes below its 
original state. Ideas must become ex- 
ternalized, in material form, in order that 
the cycle of necessity may become com- 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 125 

plete: this involution and evolution of the 
spirit's potentialities, or hidden attributes, 
is the whole of nature externalized, out of 
the Spiritual Sun, into matter — in granite 
rock, soil, vegetation, plant, tree, animal 
and, lastly, man, who contains in his com- 
plex, duplex nature, the whole as seven 
rays of spirit, giving him a universal re- 
lation to all below him as the compound 
out of which he is made, so far as his body 
and brain are concerned. While his soul 
and spirit relate him to God, as His off- 
spring, in the likeness of the Sun, selfi- 
illuminated, as a miniature Sun. This 
knowledge of ourselves is necessary to 
our happiness and usefulness. Without 
it, there is no satisfactory reason why we 
exist or what we exist for. Did all man- 
kind equally realize the above truth, re- 
garding their God and themselves, wars,, 



126 The Duality of Truth. 

famines, diseases, suffering and misery 
would forever be banished from off the 
fair face of our Earth, and the dream of 
every noble soul that has died to save the 
race or who has consecrated his life's 
blood and energies to this end would be 
realized. Heaven would be restored to 
earth, as in the former Eden of the golden 
age, where all were one race and one 
people. This, however, can not be until 
by evolution the involved spirit has 
evolved its potentialities universally for 
the whole race. Individuals only can ex- 
perience this who are evolved on this 
plane in advance of the race. Evolution, 
which is governed by the cycles of time, 
aided by the planetary evolution, with the 
nicety and exactness of polar, solar and 
diurnal motion, is the key to this golden 
lock of universal life. We, therefore, 



Symbolism and Correspondence, 127 

must not become mentally disturbed be- 
cause of this, to us, slowness of Nature's 
processes in accomplishing her work or 
undertakings. She knew before spirit 
was involved what was in store for the 
atoms in their descent and ascent to com- 
plete the Cycle of Necessity, and will, in 
her own good time, restore every one of 
them back to its Eden of rest and happi- 
ness with a reason and knowledge and 
wisdom and understanding for every 
step of the way required to make this 
long journey, which should of itself sat- 
isfy all of God's children, and it will 
satisfy all as they are made to see and 
know for themselves the meaning of 
life as they experience it. The works 
of Deity require a great variety of 
laborers of different degrees of knowl- 
edge and skill, until the whole is com- 



128 T-he Duality of Truth. 

pleted. Hod-carriers, masons of stone 
and brick, will be equally necessary as the 
architects, carpenters and smiths in tin, 
iron and copper, as well as in gold and 
silver, all are necessary that steam and 
electricity may find their proper uses in 
modern creations or habitations for the 
souls of men and the Deific spirit. All is 
right for the use for which it was intended. 
All its various members are but atoms, 
organs or organisms, performing func- 
tions necessary to the complete whole. 



CHAPTER V. 

SYMBOLISM AND CORRESPONDENCE. 
{Continued.) 

We are so bound up together that the 
different parts are necessary in our social, 
religious and political relations, as much 
so as the different parts of our bodies are 
necessary to its form and functions. 

God is all in all, and we, His offspring, 
can only obey his will by becoming con- 
scious of it as it manifests through us as 
parts of the whole. We are His circula- 
tion of Life-fluid, as blood, and are drink- 
ing it with every breath we breathe. We 
eat and drink his flesh and blood, because 
there is nothing else to eatr and drink. 
This may not be known to all my readers 



130 The Duality of Truth. 

but they must be told the literal truth, in 
order that they may become free men and 
women. It is my purpose, in giving these 
thoughts to the world, to do my part of 
the work required by the whole. I am to 
write that others may read what I have 
thought. This will entitle me to their 
productions, whether of the brain or 
muscle. In this a fair exchange is but 
justice, which is required from all. The 
thought that we are immortal spirits, 
without beginning or end, clothed for a 
time in fleshy garments in order that we 
may learn the lessons of material crea- 
tions and aid the Universal Spirit to 
evolve its latent potentialities or attributes 
is not new, for Plato and Socrates taught 
similar ideas. In one sense there is noth- 
ing new under the Sun. As we can under- 
stand, without beginning and without end, 



Symbolism and Correspondence, 131 

implies all that is, can, or will be as to the 
essence or substance called spirit. It 
always existed in some form or forms or 
as the formless Universal Spirit. Only 
change in form can take place from 
one expression or existence to another, 
whether consciously or otherwise. The 
present moment is all that we can call our 
own. The past is gone and can not be 
recalled. The future is ever before us 
and recedes as we advance. We should 
use every moment aright, as in so doing 
we will build for ourselves the mansions 
in the skies we will occupy after leaving 
these bodies. Our thoughts are things of 
shape and color, formed by us in all we 
do, whether we know it or not. They 
surround us as our thought-sphere the 
same as the air does the globe we live 
upon. This picture gallery of our own 



.32 The Duality of Truth. 

creations is our book of life, out of which, 
we are judged by others and from which 
we also judge ourselves. As judges of 
our creations we acquit or condemn our- 
selves. Before we can be satisfied with our 
work it must be just and as near perfect 
as it can be. The imagination is our cre- 
ative faculty. The higher our conception 
of beauty, usefulness and justice to all, the 
finer will be our work in thoughts, acts 
and deeds. Perfection can only come 
from perfection. Therefore, strive to be- 
come perfect in spirit, soul and body, as 
the three are related to each other in such 
a manner as to require an even, harmo- 
nious development of all, in order that 
health and happiness may be attained. 
In this age of transition from material to 
spiritual thoughts, we require a knowledge 
of Nature's Universal Laws before we can 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 133 

become reconciled to our destiny. When 
it is pointed out to us that we are the re- 
sults of evolution, through countless ages, 
the epitome of Deity in spirit, soul and 
body, that we never had a beginning, as 
to spirit, except in differentiation from the 
whole. That the countless forms in every 
kingdom of life beneath us have served 
us in the past as stepping-stones for our 
soul's growth and development to its 
present state or stage. That it is des- 
tined to grow and evolve its deific nature 
through Angelic, Celestial and God-like 
forms, as co-operators with their Father- 
Mother God for all eternity. Who can 
imagine what is in store for the perfected 
human soul. Eye hath not seen, ear hath 
not heard, neither hath it entered into the 
hearts of men to conceive what God hath 
in store for those that love and serve 



134 The Duality of Truth. 

Him. Worlds within worlds, electrical 
worlds peopled with electrical beings, 
living in an electrical universe, governed 
by thoughts flashed with lightning spred 
in their operations. Imagination fails us 
from this material plane of life to picture 
out what such a world must be like. 
Those glorious Adepts in a knowledge of 
Nature's spiritual laws, who are in advance 
of us intellectually and spiritually, assure 
us the above statement is a veritable real- 
ity. Modern scientists have also arrived 
at the same conclusion and claim to have 
demonstrated to their satisfaction that 
man lives beyond the grave. The goal 
leads us on to grandeurs, beauties and 
achievements. Little do we know, in- 
deed, compared to what there is to be 
known. "Ask and ye shall receive, seek 
-and ye shall find, knock and it shall be 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 135 

opened unto you," is just as true to-day, 
regarding spiritual truth, as it has been in 
every round of the past of the mind's 
manifestation, outwardly expressed, dur- 
ing the daytime of the sub-cycle of the 
Sun. If it were not so serious a matter 
we might be inclined to laugh at modern 
scientists for their presumption in the in- 
vestigation of the spiritual forces of Na- 
ture. To read their productions 'one 
would naturally think that these truths 
were their discoveries and of recent date; 
whereas, the truth is they are as old as 
time or the human race at least and were 
better known to the golden age of mytho- 
logical history that ante-dates by many 
thousands of years modern history. We 
must accept the occult chronology of the 
Bibles and not confine ourselves to the 
modern interpretation of time as students 



136 The Duality of Truth. 

of universal history. Otherwise we will 
fail to see the light and realize the truth: 
that Nature repeats herself in cycles, 
which express themselves alternately as 
day and night, on the mental plane in ex- 
act correspondence to the day and night 
of our physical plane. When this law is 
understood all will be revealed to us as 
we are capable of appreciating, enjoying 
and using aright the knowledge and wis- 
dom of our inheritance, handed down to 
us from our great progenitors of pre-his- 
toric ages. Immortality, what is it? We 
live forever and forever, not in idleness 
but in active co-operation with God as His 
children, loving Him with all our soul and 
mind for having endowed us, His atoms, 
with His own nature, capable of usefulness 
and enjoyment — happiness and heaven. 
What can we say but, We praise Thee, O 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 137 

God. Words are incapable of expressing 
our gratitude. Silence, alone, in awe of 
His majesty and power compels our rev- 
erence in thoughts and deeds, in imita- 
tion of His works. To create, is our 
noblest aspiration. In this, we should be 
wise and obey God's command to replen- 
ish the Earth with our kind spiritually, 
mentally and physically, in order that 
heaven may reign supreme upon Earth, 
as it does in the spiritual skies. The 
Astral skies or purgatorial regions are but 
little, if any, better than on our Earth, so 
far as harmony and health are concerned, 
as they embody all imperfections and dis- 
cords found upon Earth. Seek, there- 
fore, the spiritual heavens and by aspira- 
tions of soul relate yourself to the mighty 
spiritual Hierophants who guide and 
guard our Earth's destiny. By doing so, 



138 The Duality of Truth, 

you will be made aware of the truth as 
to your origin and destiny. We reap as 
we sow. It is the law of our being — like 
attracts like and begets like. Evolution 
of thought-ideas must follow the same 
law as the evolution of material forms, 
for the reason that the ideas were in- 
volved into matter out of spirit, and in 
making the Cycle of Necessity they must 
return through evolution out of matter, 
through mind or mental imagery, back to 
spirit. Therefore, as we have been re- 
lated to material in its manifold functions, 
likewise, we are related to mind or ideas 
and evolve them in thought-forms back 
into spirit. Deity, the all in all, is a 
trinity expressed as spirit, mind and mat- 
ter. Spirit is formless, motionless, void; 
mind is spirit in motion or vibration; 
while matter, the negative pole of spirit, 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 139 

is only active as mind evolving its attri- 
butes that have become crystallized into 
material forms. When mind is active in 
matter we witness great changes in form 
and function of every grade — from gran- 
ite rock to the highest material form — the 
human. Growth and decay — life and 
death — are manifest through vegetable, 
animal and human planes of life out- 
wardly expressed and on the Angelic and 
Arch-Angelic, and still higher spiritual 
planes, completing the evolutions of 
spirit's potentialities; therefore, ideas must 
be expressed in an infinite variety of 
words in order to evolve them back from 
matter, in its infinite forms, into the uni- 
versal spirit — the formless ocean from 
which they originally had their birth. 

Identity is the One Law of this plane 
of spirit, as One God, One Principle, gov- 



140 The Duality of Truth. 

erning all; therefore, when motion, or 
mind, or vibration, is manifesting its law 
diversity is the opposite pole of unity. 
The duad, as Father and Mother, express 
the trinity on the three planes of spirit, 
mind and matter; therefore, nine is all 
that can express itself outwardly. Hence, 
nine is the highest digit we possess, and is 
the symbol of Deity, in manifestation. 
While ten is the symbol of unmanifest 
Deity, as One, whose center is everywhere 
and whose circumference is nowhere. 
How simple and easy to understand and 
comprehend, in its universal aspects, but 
how difficult in its complex, complicated 
manifestations, as expressed by polar, 
solar and diurnal motion in spirit, mind 
and matter. Yet, these three motions 
must be mastered by us before we can 
comprehend the laws of involution and 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 141 

evolution, or those of polar opposites, or 
those of sex, as they are all one in origin, 
but three in their expression on the three 
planes of matter, mind and spirit, each 
meaning the exact same functions of gen- 
eration, physical, mental and spiritual. It 
is this which confuses and confounds the 
uninitiated man and woman; to them the 
duality of truth, or polar opposites, are in- 
comprehensible. They can not realize 
that every truth is a paradox. Hence, 
they fail to know themselves as spirits 
clothed in matter. As growth of the soul 
goes on, however, this knowledge is forced 
upon their consciousness and the new 
birth into spirit takes place in spite of 
their ignorance of its operation. Marvel 
not that I say unto you, you must be born 
again. No such thing as death for any 
creation of the most high. Worlds and 



142 The Duality of Truth. 

universes of worlds are projected into be- 
ing out of the Spiritual Suns as centers 
of Life, Light and Love. They perform 
their allotted task and return again into 
the spiritual Sun-parent out of which they 
were evolved. The Hermetic Law, "as it 
is above, so it is below," is the Silver Key 
with which we can unlock all nature's 
mysteries on every plane of life. We wit- 
ness the birth of all material forms from 
our earth's substances and the atmosphere 
surrounding her, and their return thereto. 
Likewise, the spirits, being emanations of 
the Suns, must return again to them after 
their Cycle of Necessity is completed. 
Space is boundless, infinite, eternal, alone. 
This is God unmanifest. He cannot be 
fenced in or circumscribed. The same may 
be said of time. One is measured by miles, 
yards, feet and inches, the other by cycles, 



Symbolism and Correspondence, 143 

eons, years, months, weeks, days, minutes 
and seconds of time. A day is as a thou- 
sand years to Deity. Eternity and time 
to Him are two poles of the same law of 
measurement. The spirit returns to spirit 
and matter to matter. This law takes 
possession of the soul and time is swal- 
lowed up in eternity. There is but One 
Life to the spirit, infinitely expressed. 
This knowledge should make us charita- 
ble towards all forms of matter and mind 
as witnessed in animal and human kind; 
also, tolerant of their beliefs in religion, 
science and philosophy. Truth, of all is 
necessary to enable us to judge correctly, 
and as they all exist in Deity and He ex- 
presses Himself under two modes of ex- 
pression as male and female, or positive 
and negative, we realize the sublime fact 
that they are all one under two heads of 
motion or vibration. 



144 The Duality of Truth. 

Science, on the plane of matter or visi- 
bility, philosophy and religion, embody- 
ing the facts of the material as well as 
the spiritual or metaphysical expressions 
of thought. The time for reunion of all 
schools of worship has come or rather is 
coming to the children of men in order 
that all may worship God under their 
own vine and fig-tree, symbols of their 
own souls and bodies, as the tree of life 
and death. There will be no need for 
one saying to another, know ye the Lord, 
for all shall know Him from the least 
unto the greatest. The Fatherhood and 
Motherhood of God, and the brotherhood 
and sisterhood of man, will then be a 
reality, and not, as it is now, a theory only. 
Wars will cease after man recognizes this 
law of his being and universal peace and 
happiness will prevail. The millennium 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 145 

on Earth will be a recognized and real- 
ized fact. May these writings find those 
ready to receive them who can and will 
aid in this glorious work of educating and 
illuminating the whole race of mankind 
to the fact of their common origin and 
destiny. We realize that darkness pre- 
cedes the day, mentally, as well as physi- 
cally. That our western races are just 
beginning to emerge from mental night 
to the most glorious day our Earth has 
ever before experienced. She has had to 
perfect herself through many cycles of 
time to give expression to what she is 
now spreading forth in splendor of intel- 
lectual knowledge and spiritual wisdom. 
The Earth is in its prime and, like a 
strong healthy man, realizes her strength 
as never before. During the present sub- 
cycle of the Sun through Aquarius, sym- 



146 The Duality of Truth. 

bol of the man, mankind will become per- 
fect — physically, mentally and spiritually 
— beyond any manifestations that have 
existed in previous rounds or cycles of 
time, on our Earth, before. The accumu- 
lated knowledge of all past ages will 
shine out on the written page and speak 
in tones of music and expressions of art, 
and scientific inventions, innumerable, to 
bless the race. Philosophy and Religion 
will gradually realize their twin sister, 
Modern Science, and the two become as 
one. They will become gradually perfect 
compared to what they are now and have 
been in the past history of our race. 
Aquarius, the man-symbol, is an airy, 
philosophical, scientific, metaphysical and 
humane sign, and the Sun and planets will 
manifest their latent attributes and poten- 
tialities through this sign for the next 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 147 

2,160 years, counting from 1881. There- 
fore, take courage, my co-workers; put 
your shoulders, arms and hands, as well 
as your brains and souls, to work that the 
race may reap the glorious fruitage during 
this most glorious cycle of man upon 
Earth. It is a great privilege to be born, 
and a greater privilege, to be capable of 
intelligently co-operating with Deity to 
do the work required to be done, in order 
that we may develop and round out our 
soul's latent possibilities in harmony with 
the whole. God requires our assistance, 
otherwise we would be mere machines 
controlled by His will alone. We realize, 
however, that we are not controlled in any 
such a manner. That He has endowed us 
with freedom to choose the wrong, as well 
as the right, and to suffer or enjoy, for 
our ignorance or wisdom of choice, is the 



148 The Duality of Truth. 

experience of every one. How could He 
give us this liberty of choice without this 
inevitable consequence. He could not 
do so, as we are immortal spirits, differ- 
entiated from Himself, possessing His 
nature of infinite knowledge and wisdom 
in an undeveloped state; hence, expe- 
rience is necessary to develop us and un- 
fold our latent potentialities. This ex- 
perience we are receiving in our earthly 
schools of life. Light is beginning to 
illuminate the mental and spiritual path. 
New ideas, new thoughts, new emotions 
of the soul arid spirit are awakening us 
to realize our responsibilities and inherit- 
ance from the dead past. Ignorance and 
superstition have done their work during 
the night time through which our race 
has passed. Much of it will have to be 
destroyed and burned up as chaff. Life 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 149 

is many sided and has many planes of ex- 
pression and only by seeing it in all its 
aspects and moods can we become Na- 
ture's expert scholars or graduates from 
Nature's University in occult knowledge 
and wisdom. Those who see, must in- 
struct those who do not. The blind do 
not see and can not be held responsible 
for not seeing, any farther than they are 
responsible for their blindness; which is an 
individual problem, and can only be diag- 
nosed and treated skillfully, after a careful 
examination of individual cases. There- 
fore no specific remedy will be offered, as it 
would be useless. Each one must ascertain 
for him or herself just what their duties and 
responsibilities are to their God and fel- 
lowman; each human being has that with- 
in them which tells them the truth from 
the falsehood regarding self. It is the "I 



150 The Duality of Truth. 

am that I am/' which is a reality as in 
very truth is this knowledge requisite to 
our development of our higher or human 
nature out of the mere animal which we 
are in outer form only. We must realize 
our inner spiritual nature and allow it to 
speak instead of the animal soul which 
would keep us in darkness, groveling in 
the mire of materiality. Desire to know 
ourselves is, therefore, the first requisite, 
and this vibration is forced upon every 
soul in its revolutionary relations to the 
whole as the Cycle of Necessity is trav- 
ersed; so, in spite of all appearances to 
the contrary, light will shine ultimately 
for every human monad, and it shall see 
and know for itself that it is an immortal 
part of the whole, as deathless as Deity, 
from whom it was evolved. It will know 
itself to be responsible to itself and to the 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 151 

whole, in exact ratio of its capacity and 
ability to know and understand. Abso- 
lute justice will be realized in demanding 
fulfillment of its nature of good and evil, 
or positive and negative; for the evil is 
only ignorance, and vanishes into good, 
as fast as knowledge and wisdom are at- 
tained. God is goodness as a whole, and 
His individual atoms can likewise say it is 
good to be born into separate conscious- 
ness — to know and realize for itself the 
tree of knowledge of good and evil — of 
light and darkness. Onward and upward, 
forever, is the order of God's law of prog- 
ress. There is no return to mortal birth, 
such as reincarnation would imply or ex- 
press. After we have attained to the 
human state, all our rebirths take place on 
the interior and spiritual planes of life; 
from plane to plane our progress is ac- 



152 The Duality of Truth. 

complished. On every cycle there are 
awakened into active life the slumbering 
souls that are ready for further growth on 
higher spirals and they become teachers 
to those left behind in the evolutionary 
march of nature, in unfolding the unde- 
veloped crop of human souls, that are 
being prepared for their next spiral of life 
and so on forever. If the truths herein 
stated appeal to the reader, before accept- 
ing them he should apply the Hermetic 
law, " as it is below, so it is above." This 
law of Duality of Truth enables us to 
arrive at the truth of Nature's operations 
for ourselves, to the full extent that we 
know this plane of life. The two planes — 
the within, and the without — the above 
and the below — the visible and the invis- 
ible — comprise the whole of matter and 
spirit. The ideal or mental, and the ma- 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 153 

terial or visible planes, must correspond 
as the ideal preceded the visible or mate- 
rial. It can not express itself contrary to 
this law; therefore, each one may re-as- 
sure themselves of the truth regarding 
their every relation by actual experience 
to the whole as they circulate throughout 
Deity in every department of His vast 
being. " My soul is one with the universe, 
and my spirit at one with Deity." This 
must be fully realized to become conscious 
of our oneness with the whole in its dual 
aspects of spirit and matter — body and 
soul. The Duality of Truth is its own best 
test of its worth and reliability. Every 
truth is a parodox and has an esoteric 
and an exoteric meaning, and when the 
two are united as One Law, One Truth, 
and One Principle, Deity is manifested as 
all in all, under ideal and material mani- 



154 TJie Duality of Truth. 

festations of himself in ever} T conceivable 
expression of mind and matter. Embryol- 
ogy informs us that we are an epitome of 
the whole, matter and spirit, which makes 
every individual a miniature universe or 
microcosm, and as we were evolved out 
of the whole it must be the Macro- 
cosm in essence and ideas; therefore, we 
have proven the truth of our oneness and 
likeness of Deity. Likewise, we can prove 
to ourselves the self-evident facts of im- 
mortality and mortality as they apply to 
consciousness of the soul or its uncon- 
sciousness. It must, apply to both in turn 
as it circulates through matter and spirit. 
Therefore, the soul or spirit senses are 
related in correspondence as sensor and 
moter nerves to the brain while the sym- 
pathetic plexus of nerves corresponds to 
the Solar Plexus and binds us together in 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 155 

one whole organism as expressed in our 
solar system. All organs of our solar 
system, called planets, perform their func- 
tions in exact correspondence to the 
organs of our body in their relation to the 
heart, from which the life-blood, called 
arterial, and the black blood, called venous 
flows, which symbolizes night and day — 
life and death. It is here that we are 
made to appreciate astrology as it is the 
only science that teaches man his universal 
relation to the whole of nature — both vis- 
ible and invisible — material and spiritual. 
The four occult elements of fire, earth, 
air and water comprise both the spirit 
and matter in all its potentialities and 
symbolize to the astrological mind man's 
relation to Deity, here and hereafter. 
The wheel of destiny or fortune called an 
horoscope, is a chart of birth, giving the 



1 56 The Dttality of Truth. 

exact relation of the Sun, Moon and plan- 
ets, which symbolizes who has been born 
and what maybe expected of and for him 
— his personal appearance, his disposition - 
and character, his intellectual ability and 
tastes; his fortune, whether by inheri- 
tance, by marriage, or by personal indus- 
try if at all; his health, probable length 
of life and possible accidents; his love 
affairs and marriage, children, friends and 
enemies; his travels, speculations; his 
business or vocation, are all revealed in 
his horoscope. All the astrologer requires 
10 know to answer the above queries and 
many more, is the sex, place of birth, date 
of birth, year, month, day of month, hour, 
A. M. or P. M., to the moment, if possible, 
which enables the astrologer to ascertain 
all the above facts and if he or she be 
versed in spiritual astrology the destiny 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 157 

of the soul incarnated in that wheel of 
fortune, the physical body, the human 
organism, or microcosmic Deity. Its de- 
gree of soul evolvement and its latent at- 
tributes to be evolved while in its physi- 
cal body and the chances of its success or 
otherwise in fulfilling its relation to life 
on this material earth, are likewise the 
knowledge of the perfectly developed 
astrologer, and can be read by him for 
any individual, no matter who or where, 
that will supply him with the above de- 
scribed data. Plato's statement, thac 
God geometrizes, is proven to be true by 
the science of astrology. It was this 
knowledge and wisdom of our ancient 
Sages and Priest Kings who embodied 
their profound learning of Nature in a 
system of thought known as the "wisdom 
religion." 



158 The Duality of Truth. 

This wisdom has been concealed in 
symbolism, allegory and parable, and 
metaphor from the profane. In this way 
only could the priest-hood make it ex- 
clusively their own. Every bible under 
the Sun has for its foundation this astro- 
logical knowledge, but astrology has be- 
come so perverted and misunderstood 
that only the exceptional few occult 
initiates are in possession of its real 
truths. Hermetic Philosophy embodies 
within a nutshell the truths of Nature, 
symbolically expressed, and as the word 
Hermetic implies, sealed or secret. Occult 
students can rest assured that the wisdom 
of the ancients has been entrusted to their 
keeping. There is, however, in these 
days false representatives of Hermetic 
Truth, and false disciples who profess to 
be Hermetic Initiates; but this is only 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 159 

saying what we have so frequently re- 
peated, that every thing is dual — the sub- 
stance and its shadow — the genuine and 
the counterfeit — the false and the true. 
The Naronic Cycle or "Naros" is an as- 
tronomical cycle of six hundred years and 
produces its fruitage, mentally and spirit- 
ually, in exact correspondence with the 
law of fruitage on the material plane of 
life. Some cycles are favored with good 
crops and the fruitage is almost perfect. 
Likewise, with the Naronic Cycles, on 
the spiritual and mental planes. We 
have history to prove that about every 
six hundred years there is a spiritual and 
mental fruitage of the Naronic Cycle. 
We are witnessing its fruitage to-day all 
over the western continent. Numbers of 
men and women realize the Christ-prin- 
ciple within themselves, as children of 



160 The Duality of Truth. 

God, born to a conscious oneness with 
Him. 

All such persons are the culmination, 
or fruitage, of the Naronic Cycle, known 
to astronomers and astrologers as the 
"Naros." It does not refer to individ- 
uals, whatsoever, as it is purely an astro- 
nomical Cycle of the Sun and Moon in 
their relations to each other, and the in- 
dividuals who mature under its influence 
are the fruitage of the Cycle; that is, they 
are the offspring or effects manifested in 
physical forms by reason of its influence. 
Buddha of India, Zoraster of Persia, 
Pythagoras of Europe, Appolonius of 
Tyanna, Jesus of Nazareth, Mohammed 
of Arabia, the hosts of reformers that 
came upon the scene of history during 
the reformation, such as Luther, Calvin, 
Knox, Wesley and hosts of others less 



Symbolism and Correspondence, 161 

noted, were the fruitage of that cycle. 
Again we witness its fruitage manifested 
in the revival of occultism. Under a multi- 
tude of heads, too numerous to mention, 
all the results of this Naronic Cycle mani- 
festing outwardly, through humanity, this 
mental influence or fruitage to the west- 
ern races. i\ll as natural as the fruitage 
of apples, pears, peaches or other fruits in 
their season. We all know some fruit is 
nearer ripe and more perfect than others; 
also that some seasons mature their crops 
better than others. As it is in matter, so 
it is in spirit; or, in other words, "as it is 
below so it is above." Truly are the 
words of prophecy verified, all shall be 
revealed, nothing shall be hid ; the crooked 
shall be made straight; that is, new mean- 
ings and interpretations shall be put 
into God's works and words, that will give 



1 62 The Duality of Truth. 

them the spiritual interpretation which 
gives light, instead of the letter which 
kills: instead of crystallizing His ideas 
they must be spiritualized. Theythenbe- 
come the bread of life instead of stones. 
The last Naronic Cycle terminated in 1881. 
"Naturally all eyes are looking for 
another Saviour. The Shakers, Advent- 
ists, Mormons and Christian Scientists all 
claim the modern Messiah. It is not, of 
course, necessary to say that all of these 
earnest and doubtless well-meaning sects 
are wrong, outrageously in error, because 
no such Messiah will appear to them. 
The teacher of the present Naronic Cycle 
will move in the world quite unsuspected 
as to his true and real greatness. He 
will do his work comparatively unknown 
to the world at large. He will be looked 
upon as an ordinary individual to those 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 163 

who know him. He will suffer the vilest 
kind of persecution at the hands of the 
inversive elements, w r ho dread the force 
of the principles he will leave behind him. 
His greatest friends, though mystified as 
to his real nature, will never grasp in 
reality his true w r orth until he is beyond 
their purview 7 . The Messianic messenger 
of the present Naros will not be fully 
known until he has passed through the 
shadow of the valley of death and is be- 
yond the power of the world to flatter or 
condemn. The Jews were looking for a 
monarch and a sign from heaven. The 
sign came, but the monarch materialized 
under a very different form from that 
w r hich they expected. So the Christians 
of to-day are looking for the pomp and 
glory of a Celestial King. They, too, are 
looking for a sign from heaven. The 



164 The Duality of Truth. 

sign came with the great perehelion of 
the planets in 1881, and we may depend 
upon it that the teacher was there ready 
and willing, but the world knows him not, 
nor will it. The time has passed and he 
can only be known by the generations 
which are to follow. Hope, Faith and 
Charity were the symbols of the Nazarene. 
They were needed in His day and time; 
but Life, Light and Love are the great 
requirements of to-day. They are the 
pressing needs of the hour." 

The above quotation I copy from the 
writings of one of the prominent authors 
of the present Naronic Cycle. Time only 
will prove the truth of his statements. 

Solar, Polar and Diurnal motion of 
the Sun, Moon and planets must be un- 
derstood before the triune laws of Deity, 
as taught by the wise men of old, can be 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 165 

appreciated in all their relations and in- 
ter-relations. When these laws are com- 
prehended there will be no more man- 
worship, as all will know God, from the 
least to the greatest. The monopoly of 
spiritual truth, like the monopoly of mate- 
rial substances, must be abolished, that all 
of God's children may enjoy their natural 
inheritance — their birth-right. How many 
thousands and tens of thousands have sold 
their glorious birth-right for a mess of 
pottage — their soul's liberty to spiritual 
bondage — slaves to a creed of idolatrous 
worship. Awaken O thou children of the 
ever-living God, to a conscious recogni- 
tion of your oneness with the whole of 
matter and spirit in all its operations in 
its three-fold relation to time and eter- 
nity. Know thyself to be an immortal part 
of the whole — that is, that was, or ever 



1 66 The Duality of Truth. 

can or will be. This knowledge will make 
you free and you will no longer be the 
slave to the creeds of man-made theology. 
Salvation can not be attained without 
knowledge. 

" Of all means, there is but one, Knowl- 
edge, that is efficacious for obtaining De- 
liverance. 

" Even as there is no cooking without 
fire, can one not arrive at Deliverance 
v/ithout Knowledge." 

"In reading the above we at once feel 
that it is true and all arguments, as to its 
truth or falsity, immediately vanish. 

" But, nevertheless, in accepting it as 
an axiom, we see or rather feel that the 
generally accepted definition of the two 
principal words, Knowledge and Deliver- 
ance, will not do without some qualifica- 
tion. 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 167 

"It therefore remains but for us to give 
bur conceptions of these words and to 
state in what the Knowledge and Deliver- 
ance consist. 

"We think it is quite evident that the 
Knowledge here referred to consists not 
in a mastery of the many and varied 
masses of classified facts, called material 
sciences; nor does it consist in an ac- 
quaintance with all the literature, art and 
histories of the race. 

" Likewise we believe that the Deliv- 
erance here mentioned does not refer to 
a deliverance from material cares and 
duties in any shape or manner. 

" In what then does Knowledge and 
Deliverance consist? 

" Assume as a truth the statement of 
our teacher 'That there are but three 
things in Nature — Ether, Motion and In- 



1 68 The Duality of Truth. 

telligence.' Also, assume the proposition, 
that the Human Ego is an atomic part of 
the Universal Ether, compelled into mo- 
tion by blind force, through a cycle of in- 
volution, guided by Intelligence. 

" Now, it is self-evident that an atomic 
part can never know the Whole; there- 
fore, our Knowledge does not consist in 
knowing, Who, What or Why — Ether, or 
God, is; and we are compelled to accept 
this existence as a fact. 

"Then we are finally left to conclude 
that Knowledge consists only in an under- 
standing of the Laws or motions of the 
latter — an understanding of the motions 
of our atom in its relation to the Whole. 

" With this conception of Knowledge, 
what conceptions do we get of the term 
Deliverance? 

" The idea that Deliverance consists 



Symbolism and Correspondence. 169 

in annihilation is at once abhorrent and 
absurd; and, since we exist, we can not 
be Delivered out of eternal motion. What 
then is Deliverance? 

" After a moment's reflection we are 
forced to the conclusion that Deliverance 
is not an immunity from motion or law; 
but that Deliverance lies in the possibility 
that the Human Ego, by the accumula- 
tion of Knowledge, may gain that Intelli- 
gence which will enable it to consciously 
direct the motion of its atom, instead of a 
blind obedience to law. 

" With this conception, we see that 
Deliverance does not necessarily mean 
happiness; but, after a certain stage in 
the process of evolution, happiness de- 
pends upon the Knowledge and Free-will 
of the Atom in directing, in so far as it is 
able, its movements in harmony with the 
eternal laws of Divine Motion. 



170 The Duality of Truth. 

" Having arrived at a conception 
(though perhaps a very imperfect one) of 
what knowledge consists, let us see how it 
differs from the generally accepted defi-. 
nition; as we said before, Knowledge does 
not mean, as generally defined, an under- 
standing of a mass of experiments and 
observed facts. 

" But, suppose that out of this immense 
mass, man was to discover a law to which, 
not only the material atoms, but he him- 
self was subject — this Law is Knowledge. 
Immediately all the facts, like the scaffold- 
ing of a building, may be discarded so as 
to let the Law shine out in all its majestic 
power and beauty. 

" In conclusion, then, we see that the 
Human Ego, man and woman, are the 
centers about which radiate the infinite 
spokes of Intelligence, and that a knowl- 



Symbolism and Correspondence, 171 

edge of one or many of its branches is 
useful only in so far as it teaches man his 
relation to himself and his God." 



CHAPTER VI. 

HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY, AND THE OCCULT 
FORCES OF NATURE. 

The Eternal Now is all we can know, 
it becomes ours as we become conscious 
of our oneness with all life — as the pres- 
ent becomes the past, as day succeeds 
night, or night precedes day in the dual 
operation of Deity. The Temple of Two 
Truths, becomes radiant with Love and 
Wisdom. They are spirit and matter 
dually expressed on all planes of their 
manifestation, as appearances and reali- 
ties. The visible universe and the invis- 
ible are inter-changeable. We witness 
this in the birth and death, growth and 
decay of all forms of life. Mighty forests 



Hermetic Philosophy. 173 

are built up out of the soil and air and 
death and decay transmute the same ele- 
ments back again into their respective re- 
lations with the mighty whole. The same 
remarks are applicable to animal life, in 
all its infinite forms. Life is ever active 
even in decay, as the nearer dead, or de- 
composed a substance is, the nearer is it 
in manifesting its opposite expression of 
life, which is birth on a higher plane. 
Change, eternal change, is all that can 
take place, for there is neither beginning 
nor end; for the substance or spirit es- 
sence, it is, was and will ever be, world 
without end. Love lieth at the founda- 
tion and manifests itself on every plane 
of creative life. Learn to love God in all 
his operations and creations alike. Small 
and great are equally important to the 
life of the whole. Love is life; life is 



174 The Duality of Truth. 

motion and vibration; which means activ- 
ity in thought. 

Heat, or mechanical force, as electric- 
ity, or light and heat, are expressions of 
force infinitely manifested on different 
planes of life, as zeal, energy and will- 
ability, to evolve the mind's dormant 
qualities into active expressions outwardly 
—into ideas and mental conceptions or 
images of thought-creations. Thus, does 
nature proceed in spiral form throughout 
all kingdoms of universal life — simple and 
complex — one in many. These spheres 
are not permanent, but the temporary 
homes of those who pass through them. 
Spheres of love and every shade of mental 
life and ideality. Knowledge and wisdom 
are represented as a means of soul devel- 
opment. Worlds permeate worlds, thou- 
sands and millions of them, filling space 



Hermetic Philosophy. 175 

with the infinitely fine, as cosmic dust, to 
the infinitely dense, as granite rock. Won- 
derful and marvelous, indeed, is Nature's 
works. Words fail us in our endeavor to 
give a word painting of Nature's grand- 
eurs as they are revealed to our conscious- 
ness in all life's ramifications. Spirits of 
every grade and shade of thought are 
found as inhabitants of the spheres of the 
invisible worlds. Hermetic Philosophy 
deals with the hidden, secret and occult 
forces of Nature. It does not confine 
itself in its researches to any one division 
or department of Nature. It accepts the 
truth wherever found, from every system 
of thought, from every religion — no mat- 
ter by what name it is known; it includes 
them all and accepts the truth of each 
and harmonizes them under One Law, 
One Truth, One Principle and One God. 



176 The Duality of Truth. 

This Wisdom-Religion is the religion of 
Nature in all her beauty and grandeur, as 
published to us by Deity Himself in His 
creations and manifestations on every 
plane of His being — spiritual, mental and 
physical. Modern science and Hermetic 
Philosophy are twin sisters, and go side 
by side in their investigation of Nature's 
laws, and, when properly understood, they 
are two poles expressing the positive and 
negative — the masculine and feminine — 
synthesis and analysis of the whole of 
Nature. The whole of a thing is all there 
is of it. There can not be anything out- 
side of it, nor within it that has not its 
recognition in its right relation to every 
thing or part as dual opposites which im- 
ply each other and compliment each other 
in expression but from different planes. 
One as spirit, the other as matter. One 



Hermetic Philosophy. 177 

as light, the other as darkness. When 
this dual law is properly understood it 
explains all there is or can be; therefore, 
it is the truth itself, and is self-evident, 
and, like our existence; it does not admit 
of an argument, for, "I am that I am," 
This knowledge must become common 
property, alike to all lovers of truth, if 
they are ever to know, even as they are 
known, and worship God in spirit and in 
truth as one Wisdom-Religion embracing 
all science and philosophy. The Occult 
Forces of Nature are infinite in their ex- 
pressions, as one force dually expressed. 
First one, the Divine Ego, as first differ- 
entiated as the two halves, which com- 
prise the duad; then the trine — the posi- 
tive and negative forces and their off- 
spring — the results of their dual relation; 
then, the quartile, where the two souls 



178 The Duality of Truth. 

have related themselves to the four ele- 
ments of Nature — earth, air, fire and 
water; next, the quintile, where the five 
senses have become evolved, enabling the 
Ego to contact greater knowledge and 
wisdom; next, the sextile relation or 
double trine, where each soul has well- 
developed, within itself, both attributes — 
the positive and negative, and their own 
power of creation, which manifests the 
sevenfold or septenary, where the double 
trine is harmoniously related to the 
Adonai. This completes form in its rela- 
tion to the whole, where the septenary 
laws are active and potent and may have 
an equal influence. The next step, or rela- 
tion, is the double quartenary, or eight- 
fold aspect, which symbolizes death, or 
that state of rest or polarization where 
the soul awaits its transition from the 



Hermetic Philosophy. 179 

plane of matter to that of spirit. The 
occult student, by studying causes, soon 
learns their effects; for an effect to a 
developed soul will suggest the cause. 
We can only understand the occult forces 
of Nature by studying ourselves — our own 
universe of matter and spirit. The num- 
ber seven is the law of form; eight, of 
rest ; nine of spirit ; and ten of formless Dei- 
ty, The human family alone are governed 
by the full and complete septenary laws 
of Nature. There are seven planets of 
our Solar system; seven colors of the 
rainbow; seven notes in music; seven 
days in the week — all symbolical of com- 
pleteness of form and function. When 
Nature wishes to express herself upon a 
higher plane, a higher note is struck, viz.: 
the octave — then she repeats herself on a 
higher scale of vibration. There is a 



i8o The Duality of Truth. 

center to all forms of life, to which the 
septenary influence vibrates in order to 
present matter and spirit in tangible ex- 
pressions to our consciousness. The re- 
sults of the vibratory currents may be 
seen by the eye, heard by the ear, or 
sensed by the smell or touch, and when 
the septenary being is complete intuition 
and thought transference is added. We 
are all aware of the many, many degrees 
of vibration — the harmonies and the dis- 
cords — these are regulated by the degree 
of development, density and fineness of 
the object vibrated to. That which, at 
one stage of development, would be ex- 
quisitely beautiful and harmonious, be- 
comes its opposite upon a higher plane. 
Consequently upon every plane, and at 
all stages of growth and progress, the 
dual forces are found to exist — co-eternal 



Hermetic PhilosopJiy. 181 

they are present. But with man, it lies 
in his power, to a certain degree, to enjoy 
or suffer either one of these two forces 
throughout eternity. 

A thought — man's most potent occult 
force — can instantly change his own and 
also another's condition, mentally or spirit- 
ually, which will, as soon as the orbit of 
its action has become completed, change 
also the physical body. These occult 
forces are expressed in forms through the 
law ot vibration, attraction and repulsion 
— instinct or affinity — reason and intui- 
tion; and thought transference, to cor- 
respond to the four planes — mineral, vege • 
table, animal and man. In the lowest 
expression of life it is attraction and re- 
pulsion or respiration — inspiration and 
expiration. The fourth dimension of 
space providing the necessary space for 



1 82 The Duality of Truth. 

the expansion and the contraction in 
simple breathing, for the atoms confined 
in dense matter. In the lowest form of 
inorganic matter, such as the stone and 
mineral, where the Divine spark has sunk 
to its lowest possible state, and only one 
force is expressed. Life there is the un- 
conscious vibration of the higher forces of 
nature, and life is sustained and progress 
attained only through merely breathing, 
or obeying the lowest expression of these 
forces — attraction and repulsion. As the 
divine atom progresses on its evolutionary 
journey, these laws become more active 
and positive. The inspirations and expi- 
rations are deeper and longer, until it 
reaches the vegetable kingdom, where a 
higher degree of this same law is ex- 
pressed through the laws of affinity — sen- 
sation has been developed; here is the 



Hermetic Philosophy, 18 



j 



first, faint glimmering memory of the 
conscious duality manifested. Higher, 
stronger and more sensitive does the in- 
carnated soul become that in some forms 
of vegetable life we behold the next de- 
gree of evolution, that of instinct — the 
avenue through which these occult forces 
govern the animal kingdom. Although, 
in the lowest forms of animal life, known 
as protoplasm, we find them only with 
sensation, which corresponds to the lowest 
degree of the mineral; each kingdom 
commencing at the lowest and evolving 
up. Instinct governs the animal, while in 
the higher forms we witness a degree of 
reason, as manifested in the life of ani- 
mals, showing that animal forms have 
become more sensitive to the septenary 
laws, and greater power and force is ex- 
pressed through them, with a certain de- 



184 The Duality of Truth. 

gree of intelligence. It is in the animal 
kingdom that the five avenues of the 
physical senses are evolved, thus enabling 
a more varied demonstration of the laws 
governing form. As instinct is the con- 
trolling force, we always see one sense 
dominant; the organism is not complete 
until it reaches the human form, where 
the individual universe becomes complete 
as to form, but imperfect in the full un- 
foldment of his potentialites. At the 
human stage only, is form capable of re- 
ceiving the full influx and potency of the 
occult forces of nature in their septenary 
aspect, making this stage of the soul's 
Cycle of Necessity the first possible con- 
dition where the individual soul can intel- 
ligently and consciously choose and form 
its own environment, and map out a path 
for itself. Here are the first conditions 



Hermetic Philosophy. 185 

presented that the soul can change its 
vibratory currents and relate itself to the 
different spheres of knowledge. All con- 
ditions, form, size, color, quality, and 
properties, are due to vibration. From 
whence these vibrations to the infini- 
tesimal, unconscious atoms — struggling to 
live, grow and experience — that lie im- 
prisoned in the dense inorganic matter. 
Far away, back in the dim vista of the 
past, where these divine sparks had their 
differentiation, or birth and origin, as sep- 
arate atoms they still retain their relation 
to their divine parents — a relation that 
can never be broken nor changed in its 
primary quality. The Divine Fiat was 
light, and light means motion; motion 
means life; life means growth; growth 
is progress; progress means unfolding, 
developing and externalizing to conscious- 



1 86 The Duality of Truth. 

ness the latent possibilities of the Divine 
Ego, and thus imitate God by becoming 
the Lord of a universe of his own. While 
lying imprisoned in the granite rock a 
change of polarity of the atoms is created, 
and disintegration takes place to form the 
necessary provision for a new birth, and 
life in the vegetable kingdom begins; the 
forces of destruction and construction are 
ever at work. Nature is ever dissolving 
the old forms and conditions to make 
room for the new. In the vegetable king- 
dom the vibrations become more intense 
and excite into action other and higher 
occult forces until the climax is reached in 
the rose where the whole of the septenary 
forces are active to a certain degree and 
their effect is observable in the beauty of 
its form, colors and the delicate fragrance 
which is only discernible to the higher 



Hermetic Philosophy. 187 

developed senses of man. At this point, 
the necessary conditions have been pro- 
vided for the soul's next step of unfold- 
ment into the animal kingdom. The full 
expression of the septenary influences are 
latent until, in each kingdom, the climax 
in form is reached. As in the mineral, 
only in the Gold, is the whole to be found 
by the chemist and alchemist. The same 
law holds good in each of the four king- 
doms — mineral, vegetable, animal and 
man. In the perfected human form alone 
does the soul find the necessary conditions, 
attributes and qualities to relate itself per- 
fectly to the whole. Merely a human 
form does not imply a harmonious rela- 
tion to the Macrocosm. Far from it, 
many in human form are only guided by 
the higher instincts of the animal. The 
avenues for the higher senses of reason 



1 88 The Duality of Truth. 

and intuition are closed to such and there 
is no response. Even a child, what ever 
its possibilities may be, is not born with 
these higher senses developed. Only one 
or two senses, at most, are awake and 
active — taste and feeling, breathing and 
assimilation— the corresponding condition 
in the first expression of life in the lower 
kingdom. The other qualities are in 
embryo and await development by educa- 
tion — experience is necessary to call them 
forth. Here is called forth the highest 
powers of the soul or rather the Divine 
Ego. Intuition and reason make the hu- 
man-man not content to merely live. His 
intuitions tell him that this present life is 
noc all; every individual atom of ms being 
is calling for light, life, motion, growth, 
progress, which spurs him on to seek, 
know, and understand all beneath him; 



Hermetic Philosophy. 189 

that which is on the plane beside him, and 
then, to harmoniously relate himself to 
the forces above, where thought-transfer- 
ence takes possession of the soul and re- 
lates him intelligently to the invisible 
realms of Angelic beings. Who would 
not aspire to become a culmination, or 
the perfected expression, in the human 
kingdom. One can not achieve this alone; 
there must be the union of the double 
trine, as each alone expresses only one- 
half of the Divine Ego, and it is through 
the union of the two rays and the perfect 
at-one-ment with the Adonai that the 
septenary law becomes complete; the law 
of form rounded out; the Microcosm at 
one with the Macrocosm. It may be an 
unconscious relation on the physical plane, 
but the development of the divine possi- 
bilities will enable the Adonai to con- 
sciously say, while yet animating material 



190 The Duality of Tmth. 

form, " I am that I am." These same 
forces are also manifested on the mental 
and spiritual planes of the Ego's conscious 
relation to life. The first independent 
life of a child, although the highest mani- 
festation of God, corresponds to the low- 
est and first action in matter, viz.: breath- 
ing. It is at this stage that the first 
vibration of the mental is excited. So 
soon as the first vital breath is taken, the 
brain is stimulated into action, and the 
mind begins to think, to create wants and 
desires, and the process of perfecting its 
development can more easily be imagined 
than described. Also, the first manifesta- 
tion of the spiritual attributes in man is 
breathing — that unconscious obedience to 
the divine law of attraction and repulsion 
— expressing in all mankind that innate 
desire to worship. Why, few can tell, 
because of their soul's unconsciousness. 



CHAPTER VII. 

THE SOUL'S AWAKENING TO CONSCIOUSNESS! 

This consciousness is the gradual 
awakening of the soul from its material 
sleep. This takes place very slowly and 
almost imperceptibly to the Neophyte 
seeking initiation. It requires a long 
course of training to bring the material 
body and every animal passion, appetite 
and desire within it to the undisputed 
harmonious control of the divine self- 
hood. Until this is accomplished, the Ne- 
ophyte is but the helpless medium of 
matter. Until the body is brought under 
the command of the will, and stands in 
absolute subjection to the soul, can he 
hope for the soul's conscious awakening 



192 The Duality of Truth. 

under the guidance of the spiritual mas- 
ters, who have been attracted to the Ne- 
ophyte by reason of his earnest aspira- 
tions for soul-consciousness; for, when 
the soul is ready, behold the Master will 
appear. Then, under the divine will of 
the Masters, the spiritual ceremonies 
commence that will, in due time, external- 
ize to the outward consciousness of the 
Neophyte, the knowledge of who he is 
and his divine possibilities. 

The Macrocosm comprises all that is. 
Let us contemplate for a moment the 
sum of all the force, actual and potential 
which is necessarily always one and the 
same in the whole universe. To grasp in 
thought this idea, we disolve the whole 
of the macrocosm into its ultimate or 
primal condition, our of which all forms 
necessarily have their being. This One 



The Sotcl's Awakening. 193 

Force is God: it cannot be increased, 
and it cannot be diminished. But while 
this force is indestructible, it is change- 
able infinitely. As one force disappears 
under one manifestation it reappears un- 
der another. Light runs into heat, heat 
into electricity, electricity into magnetism, 
magnetism into mechanical force; and 
mechanical force back into light and heat. 
A close study of nature will prove that a 
multiplicity of separate forces does not 
exist, but that all forces are but modifica- 
tions of One Force, which is God him- 
self. This Divine Force or Being pro- 
duces within himself all action and pas- 
sion, all permanence and change. I be- 
lieve with Faraday that all force is will 
force, and that the will of the Supreme 
Being is manifest in the infinitely varied 
perfections of his power, his knowledge, 



194 The Duality of Truth. 

his wisdom, his love. He makes the sun 
to rise, the seasons to revolve, and food 
to spring out of the earth, which is but 
one of his numerous organs: the whole 
starry heavens, with their hosts of sen- 
tient beings, equally proclaim his will 
operating in all. He bids us see that one 
force and intelligence is over all, in all, 
blowing in the breeze, sparkling in the 
stars, animating us as we bound along in 
the felt enjoyment of health, consciously 
alive to our relation to this great and 
mighty One Force, not as something 
apart from God or independent of Him, 
but as the power and will of God himself, 
operating in and through us. To fully 
realize the above is to be at one with 
God. "I and my father are one," for the 
Microcosm to relate himself consciously to 
the Macrocosm as he can do by reason of 



The Souls Awakening. 195 

the oneness of essence, oneness of law, 
wisdom and will that permeates the Great 
Being, is all that is necessary to obtain 
that peace that passeth understanding. 
All sacred writings, all systems of scien- 
tific thought, all philosophy is at once set 
forth clearly, repeatedly, and in almost 
every varied form of expression to him 
who thus clearly comprehends his relation 
to this One Force, One Being, although 
appearing temporarily in a divided form 
and shape. But if the individual mind is 
one with the Universal Mind, he does not 
require to go out of himself to ascertain 
any truth, because everything that exists 
is a manifestation of the Universal Mind, 
himself included. Hence the two are 
only one, and the idea of his mind, as a 
separate mind, is only an illusion. By 
mind we mean that faculty which wills, 



196 The Duality of Truth, 

thinks, perceives, judges, and understands. 
The magnet is the symbol of mind in all 
so called inorganic elements of nature. 
Its positive and negative mind, so to speak, 
is variously manifested in minerals and 
metals. How varied are the relations and 
combinations of inorganic elements to the 
functions of life; how tremendous are the 
issues depending upon their right adjust- 
ment? The same elements in different 
combinations produce nutritious food, or 
deadly poison. Here is the law of good 
and evil. It manifests itself throughout 
all the kingdoms of life forms, from the 
mineral to man, and has its origin in the 
duality of God as Positive and Negative 
or Male and Female principle; seen in 
the gases, ethers, minerals, vegetables and 
animals, as well as in man to produce or 
create sex with its multiplicity of life 



The Soul's Awakening. 197 

manifestations. This dual action or force 
is operative in the imperceptibly small, to 
the immensely large. It pervades and 
embraces and holds together the whole of 
the universe. Without this dual force 
there could by no possible means be gen- 
eration, or what is called creation. Death 
or change of one substance into another, 
is only the positive mind acting in opposi- 
tion to the negative mind. Birth or cre- 
ation results from this force in action, 
manifesting the will, power, intelligence 
and wisdom of the One Universal Mind, 
which governs and controls the separate 
divisions of life force in all the kingdoms 
of life, from the highest to the lowest. 

With the above explanation of good 
and evil, of Death and Life, Heaven 
and Hell, we recognize the necessity of 
this dual force in order to have God mani- 



198 The Duality of Truth. 

fest Himself to each part of himself; or, 
in other words, motion and sensation are 
absolutely essential to each separate part 
of the divine whole — bound together in 
sympathy: the results of this dual force in 
action, which creates a sympathetic force, 
which corresponds to the offspring or 
child, who necessarily has the same na- 
ture complete within himself as the parent 
(from whom he was evolved), hence he is 
the Microcosm, with will-power to evolve 
all his latent faculties of intelligence back 
into harmony with the whole by reason 
of the dual force, motion and sensation, 
which ultimately evolves sympathy as the 
highest manifestation of wisdom, which 
is harmony, health, happiness, heaven, 
love, or God himself. This evolution 
process is the positive and negative; the 
father and mother; the acid and alkali; the 



The Soul *s Awakening. 199 

motor and sensor; the male and female; 
the hate and love; the attraction and re- 
pulsion; the pull and push; the action and 
reaction, that manifests itself throughout 
the Macrocosm, which proves beyond all 
doubt that one and only one intelligence 
permeates and governs the whole. Suns, 
planets, moons and earths, with their 
countless hosts of animated beings are all 
to be found in man: his heart is a Sun, 
his different organs correspond to the 
planets of our solar system, his blood 
globules correspond to remote globes; his 
leucocytes or white blood globules cor- 
respond to moons. The number of white 
or red globules of blood is about the same 
as moons to pianets. The seasons of the 
earth are represented by the circulation 
of man's blood; the arterial circulation 
symbolizes seed time and harvest, springs 



200 The Duality of Truth. 

and summers. The venous circulation 
symbolizes fall and winter. The blood's 
circulation corresponds to the oceans, lakes, 
rivers and creeks of our planet, and fer- 
tilizes the soil of our continents, moun- 
tains and valleys, as the blood does the 
bones, flesh and viscera of our bodies. 
The processes of life and death are car- 
ried on in each. The sun is the dis- 
penser of light and heat necessary to the 
earth's productions of plants and animals. 
The heart in man may be said to dis- 
pense love, or light and heat, as its anal- 
ogy creates plants and animals in man. 
The sun sways the whole planetary sys- 
tem by his magnetic influence upon its 
every member. The heart of man does 
the same with every organ of his body. 
We all acknowledge by the blushes of the 
cheek, the feeling of love and pride, that 



The SouPs Awakening. 201 

the heart possesses dominion over the 
citadel of life, and permanently influences 
the changes of our blood, by its relation 
to the nervous, magnetic influences, dis- 
tributed among the minute blood-vessels, 
creating the chemical action in the blood. 
We call life mind, intelligence. Here it 
is that life, mind and chemistry meet to- 
gether as positive proof of one eternal 
mind, as the sun from which all life, light, 
heat, electricity, magnetism, air, ether, 
liquids, and solids are evolved. Diversity, 
multiplicity and change are manifest 
within and without ( Esoterically and Ex- 
oterically). It seems to me foolish for 
men of scientific pretensions to quarrel 
and fight over their differences of opinion 
on any subject, as they are due to causes 
inherent in the essence of their being, 
which gives one man dark skin, eyes and 



202 The Duality of Truth. 

hair; another red or light skin, blue eyes 
and brown hair. This diversity of life 
forms, shapes, species, etc., necessarily 
and inevitably manifests this one mind as 
we see it, and feel it, within and without. 
"What life and beauty, when, in all that 
breathes, or moves or grows, His Hand is 
viewed at work! Unfolding every bud, 
each blossom tingeing, shaping every leaf, 
rolling each billow. Moving every wing 
that fans the air, and every warbling 
throat/' 

By permission the following poem is 
given as a conclusion to this book: 

THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES. 

It begins in ocean caverns, 

Whose depths to depths resound; 
It rises on the glittering spray, 

Till the the Sun attracts the sound, 
"We praise Thee, O God." 



The Soul's Awakening. 203 

The dullard Earth booms slowly out, 

Those words of import high, 
Till the sound, too huge for confined space, 

Breaks forth into the sky; 
And the nearer orbs repeat it, 

And the far-off spheres beyond; 
And the world's yet uncreated, 

From the unmade space respond, 

"We praise Thee, O God." 

The Suns lead forth the solos, 

And their Earths the chorus take, 
The tremblings of whose atmosphere, 

Cause the fullest chords to shake; 
Whilst the angel of each orb 

Takes the burden of the song 
And repeats it through the ages 

Its echoes to prolong, 

"We praise Thee, O God." 

Like bells that chime at sunrise, 

The stars of morning brightness 



204 The Duality of Truth. 

Peal forth their tale of joy, 

In endless songs of gladness — 

And the orbs of evening twilight, 
More sombre and more calm, 

Add tones of silvery sweetness, 
To this love-inspired psalm, 

"We praise Thee, O God." 

The life waves, ever circling round, 

Revolve with but one word, 
And in every phase of action, 

This anthem will be heard. 
The souls that hoped and struggled, 

The hearts that quailed and fell, 
Those souls, that seemed forever lost, 

Live again these words to tell, 

"We praise Thee, O God." 

And the tongues that ne'er before could 
speak, 

All the hosts that had no voice, 



The Souls Amakening. 205 

The souls that died without a hope 

Shall, in one tone, rejoice, 

And adore that mighty, boundless Provi- 
dence, 

In whose glorious mighty sway 

The revolving Suns and systems, 

In tones of rapture say, 

"We praise Thee, O God." 

The strugglers after truth, 

Who had failed in earthly years, 
The philosophy of the schools, 

The science of the spheres; 
The intellects of ages, with 

Their reverend thoughts now one, 
Arch-Angels bright and Cherubim, 

To that triumph march, "Move on," 
"We praise Thee. O God.'' 

These take the rolling bass, 
Ascending line by line, 



206 The Duality of Truth. 

Till faith the treble fills, 

And leads the air divine. 
Whilst Love! that Master Spirit 

Of the only-living God, 
Beats the time through space and ages 

Till they pulsate in one throb, 
"We praise Thee, We praise Thee, 

" We praise Thee, O God. 



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forces, and will prove of great value to Occult students. 
A rare treat is in store for you on The Sphinx and Pyr- 
amids of Egypt. Symbolism and Correspondence alone 
are worth many times the cost of this unique book. — 

Zanoni. 
CLOTH, PRICE 81.00. 

THE ASTRO -PHILOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING CO., 

1609 Downing Ave., Denver, Colo. 

"WITHIN THE TEMPLE OF 1318." 

By BELLE M. WAGNER. 

This is an Occult Novel of rare value, as it contains 
a vast deal of Occult lore on many subjects. Soul- 
Transfer and Soul-Marriage are especially dealt with in 
a scientific manner. Everybody should read it. — 

Zanoni. 
CLOTH, PRICE 75 CENTS. 

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